Historical Setting: An unknown time in a cold land I’m keeping my distance following the sled and the men who are transporting a captured woman and the spoils of an attack on the village that was once her home. She is to be a slave, a thrall. She told me all the men ofContinue reading “#63.7, Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2024”
Category Archives: Early Medieval
#63.6, Thurs., Dec. 12, 2024
Historical Setting: An unknown time in a cold land I watch from this distance hiding in the brush as the marauders rescue their chain and lay it limp and lifeless back in the sled. Now Mara is dragged to the sled. How can it be that it was Mara that called out to tellContinue reading “#63.6, Thurs., Dec. 12, 2024”
#63.5, Weds., Dec. 11, 2024
Historical Setting: An unknown time in a cold land Dawn edges between the board slates of this shelter. It is a rosy red streaked morning and foreboding of a stormy winter’s day. I don’t know what I will do with this freedom I’ve gained by loosening the chain. I’m tired and starving andContinue reading “#63.5, Weds., Dec. 11, 2024”
#63.4, Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2024
Historical Setting: An unknown time in a cold land Considering the chain — The chain is undoubtedly more valuable to my captors than am I. It’s simply the only proof they had that I’d been captured. Maybe the chain was a prize in a raid. Or maybe it was made by their own smiths,Continue reading “#63.4, Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2024”
#63.3, Thurs., Dec. 5, 2024
Historical Setting: An unknown time in a cold land This woman in shackles speaks in the comfortable language of Frankish Gaul. She tells me men are most often killed when they are captured and the women are taken as slaves. So, she says, I should be fortunate they only wrapped me in heavy chains.Continue reading “#63.3, Thurs., Dec. 5, 2024”
#63.2, Weds., Dec. 4, 2024
Historical Setting: An unknown time in a cold land An apprehension shadows me as I walk toward the sunset unprepared for nightfall. I feel like I’m being stalked. I no longer fear wolves or any sort of wild thing seeking prey. And how often is this feeling of another presence discovered to be theContinue reading “#63.2, Weds., Dec. 4, 2024”
#63.1, Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2024
Historical Setting: An unknown time in a cold land Dear God, thank you for life and breath and time alone… but I find myself now on a blank slate of winter earth that seems endless. I’ve seen signs of other mortals and I know your invisible presence is here too. Thank you for stayingContinue reading “#63.1, Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2024”
#62.12, Thursday, Nov. 28, 2024
Historical Setting, cold unknown Today, I’m walking alone, or I would be, except for my persistent trust that God is with me. It’s like the air of breath that seems always everywhere, yet invisible, like water for sea creatures. Air allows me to live as I do, a mortal, tangible creature of earth. AirContinue reading “#62.12, Thursday, Nov. 28, 2024”
#62.11, Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2024
Historical Setting, unknown All along this walk I share the winter peace, solitude by the sea with only the birds and critters. I’ve seen seals on some rocks – probably every strange creature imaginable is lurking in this vacancy of humankind. And here are all the birds that linger on the rocks, spread-winged, orContinue reading “#62.11, Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2024”
#62.10, Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2024
Historical Setting, unknown Waking in a tiny shelter made with one deer hide folded this wolf companion, I call Little Brother, is still here and he has chewed our water skin to pieces. It’s just the kind of thing an adolescent wolf would do. He has no imagination for any future need we wouldContinue reading “#62.10, Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2024”
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