Historical setting: 589 C.E. The cottage in the mountains Brother Servant and I are talking quietly. Ana is resting in the next room. He tells me, “Ana has been anxious to hear what has become of her teacher and her home by the Loire. She saw smoke rising behind her as sheContinue reading “Post #30.8, Weds., March 16, 2022”
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Post #20.6, Thursday, May 13, 2021
Historical setting: 584 C.E. The house of Eve “First Page: ‘How I saved your bones for you to use again’.” Little Anatase is reading the journal pages that Nic left with her so I would know things when I awoke all these years later. “He wrote, ‘Brother Laz, it was a veryContinue reading “Post #20.6, Thursday, May 13, 2021”
Post #20.5, Wednesday, May 12, 2021
Historical setting: 584 C.E. The house of Eve, pagan healer Now every rising is grief. It was Nic who understood my circumstance of life and life again and he noticed that would give me so much practice in loosing loved ones I would become “good at grief.” I assured him no one is “goodContinue reading “Post #20.5, Wednesday, May 12, 2021”
Post #13.1, Thursday, October 1, 2020
Historical setting: 563 CE, at the family cemetery of the old villa “Brother Lazarus, her name was not Susannah; her name was Minerva.” The familiar sound of Nic’s voice plundered my moment of reverence as I knelt at the grave to place the flowers I had gathered. What does he know of myContinue reading “Post #13.1, Thursday, October 1, 2020”
Post #12.11, Wednesday, September 23 ’20
Historical setting: 563 C.E., Bragda Here in these Holy halls where even bishops tip-toe on marble floors to soften the echoes, I have found a quiet place to take a moment to mesh the stories the bishop told with the fragments of memory and now I seem to know too well the things IContinue reading “Post #12.11, Wednesday, September 23 ’20”
Post #9.7, Tuesday, June 16,2020
Historical setting: A dark age on the Saxony Shore of Gaul As the priest walks with me he is pouring out a verbose string of happenstance that allowed four orphans to struggle unknown for a whole winter in a Christian claimed wood. He unwinds a twine of guilt and caring, and also a great tangleContinue reading “Post #9.7, Tuesday, June 16,2020”
Post #9.4, Tuesday, June 9, 2020
Historical setting: A dark age on the Shore of Gaul I’m listening to the story the children tell, quoting the words they heard spoken at the burial of their family. Pumpkin leads in speaking as the youngers mouth along but stumble over incomprehensible but now familiar syllables. “Prepare these who are unbaptizedContinue reading “Post #9.4, Tuesday, June 9, 2020”
Post #9.1, Tuesday, June 2, 2020
Historical setting: A dark age on the Shore of Gaul This footpath leading into the wood from the ruin by the seashore is an easy path kept clean by someone. It is carefully cleared of brush and briars and branches. It appears to be used often — this path into a graveyard. It tellsContinue reading “Post #9.1, Tuesday, June 2, 2020”
Post #8.12, Thursday, May 28, 2020
Historical setting: A Dark Age The third day of rowing in the calm we come around rocks to see a small cove with charred pilings marking a one-time quay and now abandoned shore. At a deep distance we drop anchor and the officer tells me this is the harbor of Constantia. “Are you anContinue reading “Post #8.12, Thursday, May 28, 2020”
Post #4.2, Thursday, January 2, 2020
Historical Setting, 562 C.E. Gaul “Papa, I’m okay. I’m feeling stronger already.” Eve is pushing back the cover and pulling herself to sitting on the edge of the bed platform. “I can send Ezra for the burial. I can stay here with you.” I feel an urgency to send Ezra on. Continue reading “Post #4.2, Thursday, January 2, 2020”
Lazarus Ink 