Those were the worst, incidents in the night; sudden panicked messages in a foreign language, the half-asleep operator in the COC stirring to receive and the translator over his shoulder speaking to the room as the message shouted in: a small outpost of entirely ANP or ANSF separate from us under attack. They […]
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Lyrics / Poetry
BABY’S GOT HER BLUE JEANS ON
Some days, and songs, you just need to have a little fun.
Lyrics / Poetry
TO ME
A few days ago, I read a passage by Emanuel Swedenborg (a book recommended by a friend, no idea how he found it) that described the faces of angels. In it, Swedenborg wrote: “…the faces of angels are the forms of their interiors, thus of the affections that belong to their love and faith…it also […]
Lyrics / Poetry
MESSAGE DON’T CHANGE
Last week, I read a passage by G. K. Chesterton from “The Everlasting Man” that spoke to the continuity of message from the Catholic Church independent to world reception. In it, Chesterton wrote: “A messenger does not dream about what his message might be, or argue about what it probably would be; he delivers it […]
Journal Pages
LOOK HOW BRIGHT THE COLORS ARE
I tell her I love her as she leaves. She hears and deliberately ignores. She is still mad. Without intention, I spoke hurtfully to her the night before. She told me about an issue she had with something she ordered online. She began the conversation saying, “I’m fighting with China…” The Communist […]
Journal Pages
LIGHT AND WONDER
Not every day is Light and Wonder; not every dawn a revelation. Still, there holds beauty to be found in the act of presence to what the world will show. It is another cool morning. Dawn sun conceals behind low clouds, and its light filters through built and broken layers of a Heaven […]