Fired
Being fired is good. Last Friday, my birthday, a dear friend took me to meet a wife and her husband—a potter and an iron man. Their home and its grounds are a glorious work of art. Perennials abound, interspersed with ceramic birdhouses in shapes of whimsical flying pigs. Bubbling rock fountains. Feeders hanging elegant from […]
Anchors and Chains
When pain is to be borne, a little courage helps more than much knowledge, a little human sympathy more than much courage, and the least tincture of the love of God more than all. C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain “Toto, we’re not in Kansas anymore,” Dorothy says it as she wakes up from […]
March to the Cross
Tomorrow is the first of March and Easter is at the end—the last day. As we march toward the cross of Good Friday and the empty tomb of Resurrection Sunday, I am reflecting on the order. First comes the cross, then the empty tomb where corpse filled with life and broke free. First comes the […]
Plow
Seven acres of prairie grass turned upside down today. Tractor pulling plow tore earth straight up and exposed roots deep. And the wispy dried tan became raw umber chunks that will wait for weeding and planting and fertilizing in spring. This south field was once home to bobolinks and red-winged blackbirds greeting us on our […]