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        Second day’s end to a new year, I’ve yet to make a resolution.  Is it laziness?  Indifference?  Is it necessary?         I sit on the porch smoking what’s left of a cigar from yesterday.  I’m frugal, and sitting on porch in the winter cool and moisture, it burns better today than day before.  Like me, […]

               “’You like to tell true stories, don’t you?’ he asked, and I answered, ‘Yes, I like to tell stories that are true.’                Then he asked, ‘After you have finished your true stories sometime, why don’t you make up a story and the people to go with it?’                ‘Only then will you understand […]

               “Dad, can we go for a ride?”                “Dad, can we play catch?”                “Dad, can we play ping pong?”                “Dad, can we build a fire?”                One day, the questions will end.  Love him, and them, while they’re still there—and we are wanted.

                New Year’s Day, late morning, my daughter fills a water bottle from kitchen sink.  Workout clothes, her hair in a ponytail, “I’m going to get a workout in,” she tells me.  “I’m doing Seventy-Five Hard,” she shares on.  “Have you ever heard of it?”                “I believe I have.”                “It’s seventy-five days when […]

               Today is the Feast of the Holy Family.  It is a mass and celebration forever special to me for it is the first mass and moment when I felt, received, direct engagement of the Holy Spirit and God through reading of a scripture.                I sat in pew beside my father, and as it […]

        I sit in the dark smoking cigar.  There are Christmas trees of crab trap boxes lit at the end of docks.  A soft wind blows ringing wind chimes in match, and there are sounds of cars and dogs barking in the distance.         I wear a heavy flannel, feel the wind through […]

        Back east, I went for a run this morning wearing off flight and letharg of many meals.  It felt good to move.  In sky, I listened to a sound I love: flight after flight of geese in song, in rise from harbored sanctuary of the open tidal rivers of the shore for day feeding […]

               “Don’t be afraid to fail!  It’s the only way that you get better!” my daughter’s coach shouts to her from side of court.                Volleyball game, my daughter serves.  She’s winning point after point, but the team they’re playing is far from the toughest they will face, and while hitting target places on the […]