Historical setting: 590 C.E. Cottage between Annegray and Luxeuil Ana is concerned about the smaller baby fearing he isn’t well. Colleen and the sisters don’t find this unusual. Being born is always dangerous, and these two infants have just come through that most terrifying journey into life. But Ana is especially concerned andContinue reading “#41.8, Thurs., Feb. 16, 2023”
Category Archives: Early Medieval
#41.7, Weds., Feb. 15, 2023
Historical setting: 590 C.E. Cottage between Annegray and Luxeuil When two babies sleep the mother sleeps, the midwives get their rest, and so many thoughts and notions, remembrances and dreams race through my imagination just now. I can be the one who is awake to rock the cradle. I can remember lullabies. It’sContinue reading “#41.7, Weds., Feb. 15, 2023”
#41.6, Tues., Feb. 14, 2023
Historical setting: 590 C.E. Cottage between Annegray and Luxeuil It was a very long night. And now this disheveled morning is dizzy with sleeplessness. I add more wood to the fires. In our minds this is the good ending we were praying for. In our hearts we are not so sure. Actually, Ana andContinue reading “#41.6, Tues., Feb. 14, 2023”
#41.5, Thurs., Feb. 9, 2023
Historical setting: 590 C.E. Cottage between Annegray and Luxeuil After our midday meal Brother Servant is on his way taking a bird, and leaving the two nuns here with Colleen and Ana. I find that this is a good time to work alone in the stable to hone my winter projects, the cradle forContinue reading “#41.5, Thurs., Feb. 9, 2023”
#41.4, Weds., Feb. 8, 2023
Historical setting: 590 C.E. Cottage between Annegray and Luxeuil Colleen’s prayer aloud this morning was a bit of a surprise to Ana and me. We learned that Colleen has been worrying that she would be helping Ana deliver twins with no one to help but me. And now, she is bursting with gratitude toContinue reading “#41.4, Weds., Feb. 8, 2023”
#41.3, Tues., Feb. 7, 2023
Historical setting: 590 C.E. Cottage between Annegray and Luxeuil A message arrived on a bird’s leg simply mentioning “the nuns of Laon.” “Laon has no nuns, or convent or monastery. We were there this summer on our journey looking for nuns.” I can attest. But Ana knows what this means and she’sContinue reading “#41.3, Tues., Feb. 7, 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”
#40.13, Tues., Jan. 31, 2023
Historical setting: 590 C.E. Cottage between Annegray and Luxeuil Maybe it is true that I was enjoying a respite from confinement and limitation. Ana has no such freedom. I just wandered off. I was immersed in a religious milieu, a clutter of all sorts of obediences and solitary ways melding over one another’s rules,Continue reading “#40.13, Tues., Jan. 31, 2023”
#40.12, Thurs., Jan. 26, 2023
Historical setting: 590 C.E. Cottage between Annegray and Luxeuil “So what happened? Why did it take you a whole day to walk the horses back to Annegray?” Ana asked. But Colleen apparently didn’t want to hear excuses and my “sorrys” so she took her cheese and biscuit and went back into the main roomContinue reading “#40.12, Thurs., Jan. 26, 2023”
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