It was the smallest gift I have ever given, no bigger than a fruit fly. It was a fruit fly, in fact, captured after 15 minutes and much...

Such tiny specks of life beige and moist hardly bigger than my pinky nail. They fight their way with such determination through the tall...

I cannot help but think as I open the windows to the day and the cool morning air flows in crisp and moist of how from your failing body...

From my kitchen window you will always see two blue chairs upon the deck, side by side overlooking the meadow. Last night a storm blew...

It’s the quiet that strangles you as you lay in the darkness. It creeps around your heart, into the very marrow of your bones, so...

I missed you so as I lay in bed last night, remembering your warmth on the other side of me. Strange how I can feel it still. I breathe a...

What does a seed think of as it rests in a tomb in the darkness for a thousand years?   What does it feel when at last the air shifts?...

Today around noonish as an early autumn rain drifted down, I ambled up the hill to glean my midday meal from my neighbor’s garden (on...

Whenever I go walking now it is not unusual for a neighbor to cease weeding or raking to lean on the fence or perch on the stone wall and...

“Don’t be indoors in a sad and quiet church,” you said. So we gathered on a cool and breezy evening in May, outside the church, on the...