Historical setting: 562 C.E. Ancient Tours of Gaul Outside the monastery walls are those caves where I’ve come for long months of healing. Ascetics, seeking solace in hermitage come to these caves for lifetimes of prayer and fasting. I was here healing from death of plague most recently. Then two centuries before I came upContinue reading “Post #6.3, Thursday, March 5, 2020”
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Post #5.4, Tuesday, February 11, 2020
Historical Setting, 562 C.E. Gaul To my surprise, words spent empowering an “essential peasant matriarch” with a mere candle of understanding brings her to tears. “Do you think Ezra is sorry to be burdened with me and my gossipy sisters and my arsonly evil cousin, and my father who shouts at the neighbor’sContinue reading “Post #5.4, Tuesday, February 11, 2020”
Post #4.8, Thursday, January 16, 2020
Historical Setting, 562 C.E. Gaul This great rock was surely delivered to the edge of River Liger in a time before days were counted on human fingers. Maybe it was smoothed to be a safe nest for ancient creatures and a high ground for the furry cub caught in a raging river current. WasContinue reading “Post #4.8, Thursday, January 16, 2020”
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”
Lazarus Ink 