Historical setting: 561 C.E. Gaul Nightfall, and Eve is inside preparing and I’m out here tending the fire and stirring the pot. I hear them coming – Celeste and Daniel are racing up the hill, playful and chattering. Ezra and Colleta with the baby are taking their own good time for the slow trudge. Continue reading “Post #3.8, Wednesday, 12-18-2019”
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Post #3.7, Tuesday, 12-17-2019
Historical setting: 561 C.E. Gaul The first winter snows are a blank slate for new projects and for following fresh rabbit tracks to find the tastiest roots and leaves most hidden. Ezra and I felled a solid tree and from that I honed boards for table and benches. It is raw and warping fromContinue reading “Post #3.7, Tuesday, 12-17-2019”
Post #3.6, Thursday, 12-12-2019
Historical setting: 561 C.E. Gaul She can’t eat when her face is covered in bee nets. Eve sits on the hearthstone near the coals smoldering under the kettle. There is a bed but no chair. The soup is hot and good. But she has only one bowl and one spoon in this house and thatContinue reading “Post #3.6, Thursday, 12-12-2019”
Post #3.5, Wednesday, 12-11-2019
Historical setting: 561 C.E. Gaul “Papa, are you telling me that it was your own father who was the Pharisee with the dreaded skin disease?” “Yes, it was my father who, just like you, had the scars from the pox. The priests of the temple would not declare him clean even though he wasContinue reading “Post #3.5, Wednesday, 12-11-2019”
Post #3.4, Tuesday, 12-10-2019
Historical setting: 561 C.E. Gaul “Eve you have asked me to tell you the details of the story of the ‘pagan’ with the ‘dreaded skin disease.’ It did happen in Bethany, so I know the telling of it better than did the other gospels where it was written in different ways. It was aContinue reading “Post #3.4, Tuesday, 12-10-2019”
Post #3.3, Thursday, 12-5-2019
Historical setting: 561 C.E. Gaul I’m asking Eve who is hiding her face from me, “Does that answer your question? Did you need to know that the stories I know best are written in the Gospel of John?” “That wasn’t really my question, Papa. I really don’t care about that; but it wasContinue reading “Post #3.3, Thursday, 12-5-2019”
Post #3.2, Wednesday, 12-4-2019
Historical setting: 561 C.E. Gaul Here I am in the loft and my daughter is hiding her visage from me below harboring a curiosity or maybe a care for a Jesus story. I have stories to tell aplenty, but why would she want to hear it? “Papa, when we were little children youContinue reading “Post #3.2, Wednesday, 12-4-2019”
Post #3.1, Tuesday, 12-3-2019
Historical setting 561 C.E. Gaul It was a long journey from Poitiers here to the Liger Valley keeping watch through the night then traveling on most of this day. The donkey is resting in his stall below and I am able to find a fine rest in the straw of this loft. Now someoneContinue reading “Post #3.1, Tuesday, 12-3-2019”
December Chapter, “Stories in the Dark”
Family is always the odds and ends of old friendships sometimes with precisely matched DNA and sometimes only a wide openness to one another’s ethnic tradition: Pagan, Roman, Republican, Islamic, Democrat, Orthodox, Zealot, Heretic … The chasm of politics and the distances we hurdle to make this all work out so we can simply eatContinue reading “December Chapter, “Stories in the Dark””
Post #2.12, Thursday, 11-28-2019
Historical Setting 561 C.E. Ezra’s story continues. “I had no idea where to search for Enola. I called her in the dark and of course there was no answer. I asked Colleta to call too so that she would know she was welcome to come back inside and she could stay with us. Colleta calledContinue reading “Post #2.12, Thursday, 11-28-2019”
Lazarus Ink 