Historical setting: 602 C.E. A Woods in Gaul The guards argue for a moment over who should use the polearm, and they assure one another the spear tip is firmly in place. Now I feel the pain of it, and breath is… At this waking I am gasping for breath under a heapContinue reading “#44.6, Thurs., May 11, 2023”
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43.8, Weds., April 19, 2023
Historical setting: 602 C.E. Home in the Vosges Mts. “So you felt tricked.” Ana has more clarity of thought than I. We both know our children well. “Laz, Greg and Gabe are literate, brilliant in fact, and we both know the burden the world will place on them all too soon, demanding their many gifts.Continue reading “43.8, Weds., April 19, 2023”
#42.12, Tues., March 28, 2023
Historical setting: 602 C.E. On the road to Luxeuil When the crowd opens a little the underside of a mass of pilgrims is revealed. Here are the sick and the lame crawling along among the feet of the gathered, just for a touch of a healing hem; [Luke 8:43-48] and here is one carriedContinue reading “#42.12, Tues., March 28, 2023”
#42.6, Tues., March 14, 2023
Historical setting: 602 C.E. On the way to Luxeuil Today we walk toward Luxeuil with nothing but our fleeces for bed and a loaf of bread and wedge of cheese for the sharing. We are barely halfway to Luxeuil when the boys suggest we stop and eat the bread and cheese because they areContinue reading “#42.6, Tues., March 14, 2023”
#42.5, Thurs., March 9, 2023
Historical setting: 602 C.E. The Cottage a few miles from Luxeuil Ana answers the boy’s query for stories of their mother’s adventures with royalty by asking them to imagine a king’s library and name some books. Naming books they’ve never seen? Impossible. She hints. “The Lord is my shepherd.” Gabe announces, “PsalmContinue reading “#42.5, Thurs., March 9, 2023”
#42.2, Thurs., March 2, 2023
Historical setting: 602 C.E. Cottage in the Vosges Always changing, always new is the constant of a farm. Thole brought us a mule the summer after the twins were born, the foal of Ana’s Teardrop and Colleen’s donkey, Jack. With a mule for the hard work of it and a cow for the milkContinue reading “#42.2, Thurs., March 2, 2023”
#41.2, Thurs., Feb. 2, 2023
Historical setting: 590 C.E. Cottage between Annegray and Luxeuil When I mentioned our child yet unnamed Ana smiled with her beautiful whole face beaming far beyond that recent dinge of worry. Together we touched her round belly. We’ve been in the shadow of this thing Colleen calls “circumstance” for what seems a very longContinue reading “#41.2, Thurs., Feb. 2, 2023”
#41.1, Weds., Feb. 1, 2023
Historical setting: 590 C.E. Cottage between Annegray and Luxeuil Remembering something from a very ancient time, I tell Ana, “It was after the execution of Jesus most followers believed we had come to the farthest edge of time – the end times. We waited for a sign expecting a physical Jesus to return andContinue reading “#41.1, Weds., Feb. 1, 2023”
#40.9, Thurs., Jan. 19, 2023
Historical setting: 590 C.E. The church in the woods The sun suddenly seems to be sinking over the hills to the west, though I know full well the sun doesn’t suddenly do anything. The movements of the sun and the earth and the stars are always so predictably paced that they measure time itself.Continue reading “#40.9, Thurs., Jan. 19, 2023”
#40.8, Weds., Jan. 18, 2023
Historical setting: 590 C.E. The church in the woods Mater Doe watches me explore this sanctuary with the same eye she watches over the birds searching seeds outside the window. I see this Roman statue of Diana looking very much like the goddess of the hunt our visitors mentioned. This is a deeplyContinue reading “#40.8, Weds., Jan. 18, 2023”
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