At the end of a day

12Jul09

We have a few trees in the courtyard behind our apartment. Two silver maples and a Chinese elm.
Though they are luscious during the summer, they also carry for me the association of seeing them next to the highway on the rare occasions I would leave Manhattan by car many years ago. There—it seemed always to [...]

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Tags: Chinese-elm, towhee

while i slept

21Oct08

Into the garden,
Light and children,
Peaceful, pleasant, more than glee:
Stepped inside that dreamlike vision,
I of Him and He of me.

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Bootless cries

11Sep08

I cried out to God this morning and was surprised to hear not a thunderous response, nor a stern rebuke, nor a gentle cooing, but rather a velvet hush.  No, “hush” is too soothing, and “velvet” is too luxuriant.  It was more like a Mona-Lisa-smile of a sound.  No judgment, one way or the other.  [...]

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Passages

11Sep07

Today, 9/11, is my middle son’s seventh birthday.  He turned one when it happened.
We celebrated that day, anyway, with a cake at lunch, candles, balloons, and the requisite photo op of a 1-year-old tearing into a baked good with abandon.  He didn’t know better.  Blissfully ignorant.
Today was my going away party at work.  My last [...]

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The beginning of joy (slideshow)

30Aug07

Photos are royalty-free, used with grateful appreciation to the owners.

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