I first read of the Road to Santiago in Paulo Coelho’s “The Alchemist,” a journey he himself took and wrote of in “The Pilgrimage” and credits to inspiration for his art. I found it again, unsuspecting when intentionally taking a break from Coelho’s books, in Ken Follett’s “Pillars of the Earth” when Jack, a […]
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Poetry
FOR BEATRICE
One of my favorite things in reading is when, unknowingly, you stumble into an incredible romance. It’s not in story you go searching for, but in search for something else, it is revealed and takes you completely by surprise, drawing you in and refusing to let you break away. Recently, I began reading […]
Poetry
LETTER TO CORINTHIA
I wrote this yesterday replanting a field that failed when conditions were not right. I was looking on the skies and the quote from 1 Corinthians came into my mind: “Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; […]
Poetry / Quick Thought
THAT’S LOVE
I spoke with a friend yesterday, came to learn his five-year old son had been in the hospital with a fever for three days, made me reflect on what love is and how we show and give our care. I wrote this as a small beginning to that thought.