When you have reached the end of times there may well be a friend who says “When God closes a door, He opens a window.” They will say...

If I put my mind to it, I could give you directions to the country store. It is, after all, just half a mile away – a right at the end of...

Eat when it is offered. Sleep in the sun. If you itch, scratch. Greet people joyously.   My four-legged teacher cannot read, but if she...

I am small, yet beautiful. Inside me are tucked ancient instructions carefully written, prescribed by both tradition and religious law. I...

They stand guard along the roadside, sometimes leaning in the shadows, other times at attention on the embankment. Silently watching as...

May we find those quiet moments in the day where we can rest our weary hearts.   May we embrace the energy of the loud spaces that fill...

Two guys -- one scarier than the other.   First guy: big, bald, with tattoos scrawled all over his skull. Chain on his wallet, nails in...

Yes, it is important to keep track of where our feet are at any given moment, so an errant toe doesn't catch the curb, so a wandering...

Fold them gently      (or perhaps roughly) tuck them carefully      (or stuff them rudely) into the backpack that we all wear but cannot...

If you have words of love to say,      say them now. Because it is a solitary room, that place of “wish I’d said… ”   How freeing instead...

An interesting concept fell out of a novel I was reading. “Pain is just information.”   Yes, I thought, that is true. Step on a shard of...

You just do not  know cannot possibly know what is under someone else’s skin.   You >BEEP< without thinking, impatient. But the person in...

Hang around this life long enough and you learn how to make do. A bottle of wine can be uncorked with a screwdriver if need be. Messy...

I clonked myself in the face while splitting wood. It was a bone-headed move. Plus, I knew it was going to happen and did it anyway. My...