To read Part One of this story, go here. Harold and Joe were gone by the time I got back to the cement square–about 9:00 on Sunday morning. Of the men I had seen the night before, there was only a white man left: the scary one who’d been lying in his sleeping bag, face […]
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Madison–where I stayed the weekend for a writer’s conference–was a study in contrasts. Saturday, with the sun shining and weekend events in full swing, colorful figures dotted the green lawn in front of the capitol building. Girls in hijab laughed and snapped photos with girls in miniskirts and tank tops. Hundreds of people of many
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I’ve been thinking a bit about the past year, not pinning anything down, but allowing the thoughts to swirl through the back parts of my brain where I dream and intuit and change. Last year didn’t go as I planned it. I was going to have Turtle Heart with a publisher this year, but I’m still
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1.”The Word was made flesh and dwelt among us.” If you consider the heavens, the multiverses of stars far-flung through vast space, the spiral arms of our galaxy only an atom in a larger unknown–what is man, that Christ came? I read this paraphrase of John 1:14 in The Message once, and it stuck, ringing
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So I told you that last week I had this great spiritual post written up, but then I got the first of the negative comments from the reviewers of Turtle Heart, and that took all smug feelings of wisdom right out the window. Don’t get me wrong; I’ve gotten lots of positive comments and support
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