Historical setting: 589 C.E. Annegray Ana and Brother Servant are waiting outside the door here. Ana is sparkling as I tell her the Father will bless us. “So we will officially be married by a father!” “Not really, Ana. It is to be a blessing of our common bond of friendship –Continue reading “Post #33.8, Thurs., June 16, 2022”
Category Archives: Historical Fiction
Post #33.7, Weds., June 15, 2022
Historical setting: 589 C.E. The monastery at Annegray The father tells me that the promises Ana and I are making with one another can’t be blessed as a marriage because he assumes Ana can’t bear children; and apparently in these times marriage must be about procreation or it isn’t marriage. Of course that isContinue reading “Post #33.7, Weds., June 15, 2022”
Post #33.6, Tuesday, June 14, 2022
Historical setting: 589 C.E. The monastery at Annegray Ana expected we were called here for a medical need. I was prepared with an accounting of the cottage. But the father’s concern is not about the uses the monastery has for us. His only care is that Ana is safe and living in a fearlessContinue reading “Post #33.6, Tuesday, June 14, 2022”
Post #33.5, Thurs., June 9, 2022
Historical setting: 589 C.E. The Monastery at Annegray Ana and I have been called before Father Columbanus for some kind of accounting. On our walk we are both thinking up possible reasons he’s called for us. Ana suspects someone has a medical need and I wonder if he wants to assign me to stayContinue reading “Post #33.5, Thurs., June 9, 2022”
Post #33.4, Weds., June 8, 2022
Historical setting: 589 C.E. Ana’s cottage in the Vosges Mts. So here we are blest on this new morning of forever having the consummation of the promise borrowed from the dream, beautiful and new with terrors fading, fears washed nearly away in bright morning light and the ever-flowing cool of the mountain spring alwaysContinue reading “Post #33.4, Weds., June 8, 2022”
Post #33.3, Tues., June 7, 2022
Historical setting: 589 C.E. Ana’s cottage in the Vosges Mts. Some things were kept covered and dry — the starter for the flame — the seed for the birds. The rainwater on the floor inside is whisked out the door. The rainwater in the cooking cauldron, the feed trough and the pail will saveContinue reading “Post #33.3, Tues., June 7, 2022”
Post #33.2, Thurs., June 2, 2022
Historical setting: 589 C.E. Ana’s cottage in the Vosges Mts. It was the storm and Ana’s gentle compassion that sets this scene – Ana, beautiful as always, with a kindness radiant as warmth, and me, cold and naked, a guest in this mysterious room with a roof. How can I not seem frighteningContinue reading “Post #33.2, Thurs., June 2, 2022”
Post #33.1, Weds., June 1, 2022
Historical setting: 589 C.E. In the Vosges Mountains The storm starts with distant thunder, the wind, and now curtains of rain are moving across the hilltop in the darkness. I hang a buckskin down from the canopy of thatch over my bed, but the rivulets of rain run between the thatch and the deerContinue reading “Post #33.1, Weds., June 1, 2022”
Post #32.13, Tues., May 31, 2022
Historical setting: 589 C.E. In the Vosges Mountains We are sitting here at the table after our meal, and Brother Servant tells us “Father Columbanus is dealing with the bishops of this land over the reports brought back to other abbeys by the Lenten pilgrims. It’s not just our Celtic tonsures they are complainingContinue reading “Post #32.13, Tues., May 31, 2022”
Post #32.12, Thurs., May 26, 2022
Historical setting: 589 C.E. In the Vosges Mountains We’ve released a bird so Brother Servant will know to come for our copying work and maybe bring Ana some baby birds for these boxes. Ana has been in the wood with her little sickle, and come back with bundles of greens. “Dandelions leaves”Continue reading “Post #32.12, Thurs., May 26, 2022”
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