Historical Setting: 793 C.E. Skåne We are sitting in the open space where a door would be in a house, looking out at the rocks on the sea channel. The wind comes stiff and steady but it brings no ships. “When I was a baby, it was Auld Bjorn who kept me as his ownContinue reading “#66.12, Thursday, March 27, 2025”
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#56.6, Tues., May 14, 2024
Historical Setting, 629 C.E. Vosges Mts. I’m glad I came. God answered my casual prayer that I may love my enemy, Will, with this obligation to persist in unearthing his kindness. Dear God, may Layla and the baby find his huge hands gentle. I can, in a strange way of empathy, understandContinue reading “#56.6, Tues., May 14, 2024”
#50.2, Thurs., Nov. 2, 2023
Historical Setting, 610 C.E. Fortress Besançon I’m following the first instruction in Gaillard’s intricate escape plan for Father Columbanus. I introduce myself to the guards at the gate as “Brother Ezra, here to pray with Father Columbanus.” They are expecting me because the father called for “Ezra” as they were taking him away. Gaillard’sContinue reading “#50.2, Thurs., Nov. 2, 2023”
#38.6, Thurs., Nov. 10, 2022
Historical setting: 589 C.E. Châlons to Luxeuil It’s dusk and we’ve stopped at a cottage in a cluster amid these fields and vineyards. These people are hospitable to our cow, donkey and mules, but they haven’t much concern for the eleven of us humankinds. They won’t hear a word of our plan to tradeContinue reading “#38.6, Thurs., Nov. 10, 2022”
#36.9, Weds., Sept. 21, 2022
Historical setting: 589 C.E. Poitiers Ana is telling me that she and Colleen turned the previous midwife’s journal over to Lady Elise’s mother. “It affirmed the family’s worst fears. These childbirth deaths may not have been the natural consequences of difficult births, but something more sinister. The earl is one who seems theContinue reading “#36.9, Weds., Sept. 21, 2022”
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