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SILENT AND SHALLOW

                I shared a story with a friend.  Growing up, we were best friends, but we are all changed in time and life-experience.  We find purpose, or fall into fold with directioned masses, and as we proceed in life—molded, shaped, and directed in experience—people, places, spirits intimate in past become strangers when revisited in the […]

WITHOUT ANSWER

        Do we owe others explanation for our words?  Should we be ready and willing to say more than what stories state and express?         Should we, or have right to, tell when another serves as catalyst or inspiration to a thought; or is such intrusion and offense?  Without invitation, are we wrong […]

INVESTMENTS

                I wrote two letters this morning.  Before beginning, I reflected on how little I’ve invested into friendships and people that hold meaning in my life.  In distractions of the immanent, the more important fell away—never pressing, always there but forgotten in the background—until purposeful consideration returns such back to front and sight.                 This […]

WRITING LETTERS

                I’ve returned to an old practice: writing letters.  There were times and years in my life when I lived distant and apart from many that I loved.  I never said much over a phone, and the emotions, thoughts, and affinities I held within never seemed to speak—unless I wrote them down.  Back then, I […]

A BAD MAN

                I believe God sends us messages and signs when we are open to their receiving.  I believe he sends rebukes when needed just as he sends encouragement when that is what our spirits need.  To be open to the messages is to allow God to speak to the pieces and nature within us that […]

MEASURE OF A SOUL

                We will hurt people.  We will help others.  Which we’ve done, and to whom, we will never fully know.  This is piece and ownership to living among world of competing hearts.  What one wants, so too does another—whether time, object, or something else.                 When my time in this world is done, I pray […]

THROUGH THE DECADES

                I remember, as a child, they were always there.  They would save us a pew as my mother and father worked to ready my sister and I for mass, and we arrived “right on time” or “just a little late”—same as I do with our children now.                   My grandmother and grandfather were there; […]