I saw him in the distance, walking down the sidewalk and paid him little mind. Pedestrian traffic on our street is not uncommon. Cold weather was coming and I wanted to finish the yard cleanup before it became too unpleasant to work out of doors. The dead reminders of a once verdant spring littered the …
The snow appeared as if magic. One second it wasn’t there, the next second it was, as soft white granules filled the air and very quickly began to cover the colder surfaces. It was the first snowfall of the coming winter and I had watched it begin. It was a cold November day shortly before …
Some things persist in memory longer than others. One such is of a young woman probably approaching her majority sitting at a piano playing Melody in F. I couldn’t have been much more than 6 as it was shortly after we moved from Detroit to northern Indiana. The piano was in the dining room of …
Jesus has a very special love for you. As for me, the silence and emptiness is so great that I look and do not see, listen and do not hear. – Mother Teresa to the Rev Michael Van Der Peet, September 1997 I often pray when I run, not out of fear of the traffic …
“Old friends, memory brushes the same years, Silently sharing the same fears” Old Friends – Simon and Garfunkel A gathering of classmates for a 50th reunion. Faces changed by time ask “do you remember me?” And you find yourself embarrassed by the disadvantage. The person has called you by name, you see, and you struggle …
