Historical setting: 589 C.E. when Gaul was forest “So doesn’t that big old Christian story book have any tales of a wild hunt?” Guldilyn, the storyteller, asks. It’s only the two of us here because any who would be waiting to hear another tale have simply wandered off. “I think it wasContinue reading “Post #28.1, Tuesday, January 4, 2022”
Category Archives: Bible Stories
Post #27.14, Thurs. Dec. 30, 2021
Historical setting: 588 C.E. Forest Primeval My story continues, “What they found was the star shining for the birth of a child. There was a mother and baby, a fire that warmed them, a human fellow who cared for them, a donkey ready to carry them to a safer place later, and they wereContinue reading “Post #27.14, Thurs. Dec. 30, 2021”
Post #27.13, Weds., Dec. 29, 2021
Historical setting: 588 C.E. Forest Primeval The story continues. “I can’t even tell you now how long a journey it was, but it took them from there, wherever that was, to somewhere beyond the huge glittering temple that seemed was the most important place on earth — Jerusalem. They knew that if something isContinue reading “Post #27.13, Weds., Dec. 29, 2021”
Post #27.12, Tues., December 28, 2021
Historical setting: 588 C.E. Forest Primeval Thole and I find ourselves crowded into thatch houses with huge bundles of mistletoe and pine bows along with all these people from places that are unknown to either of us. All of this feasting and celebration is purposed to consider the thin possibility that life goes onContinue reading “Post #27.12, Tues., December 28, 2021”
Post #26.8, Weds., November 17, 2021
Historical setting: 588 C.E. The vineyards of Ezra Colleta is reciting rumors of the war so I won’t refute these details with actual fact. “We’ve heard you encountered a dragon. And we’ve heard that my son-in-law Bertigan nearly suffered death. And that my own son Daniel was the dragon slayer.” “Are you askingContinue reading “Post #26.8, Weds., November 17, 2021”
Post #25.4, Tuesday, October 12, 2021
Historical setting: 588 C.E. Courtyard of Ligugè I fear our peaceful joy of Creative Spirit eternal in beauty and life may not be perceived as enough to satisfy unquenched longings for earthly wins. Earth and heaven seem further apart. When creeds and mouthed prayers twist and unravel with the sound of a Christian earthlyContinue reading “Post #25.4, Tuesday, October 12, 2021”
Post #24.14, Thursday, Sept. 30, 2021
Historical setting: 584 C.E. Ligugè Copying a manuscript is a different practice than reading it, so to read the scriptures I do that in its own time. Here’s this page John Chapter 9. I know this. I’ve seen it happen when I was following Jesus. We came upon a man blind from birth andContinue reading “Post #24.14, Thursday, Sept. 30, 2021”
Post #24.13, Weds, Sept. 29, 2021
Historical setting: 584 C.E. Ligugè The eulogy offered to King Chilperic I by Gregory of Tours is grim. Gregory of Tours said of the King, “… in laying waste and burning districts he had no feeling of anguish .. but rather joy; like Nero before him, when he recited tragedies as the palaceContinue reading “Post #24.13, Weds, Sept. 29, 2021”
Post #24.10, Weds., Sept. 22, 2021
Historical setting: 584 C.E. Ligugè I’m grateful that the chatty stable master delivers dry straw for my mat and he stays with his ax to help me finish tidying the debris of twigs and sticks. Now after the others have gone he is still helping me weave back my damaged roof. Even in thisContinue reading “Post #24.10, Weds., Sept. 22, 2021”
Post #24.6, Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2021
Historical setting: 584 C.E. Ligugè With a fine, strong hair for a brush I’m now at an artist’s bench to fill a circle of art on the page of John 1:32. My subject will be a dove landing on the wettened head of my friend and teacher, Jesus. The dove finds respite from theContinue reading “Post #24.6, Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2021”
Lazarus Ink 