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LABOR AND LOVE
“Would you like to work in the garden today?” he asked. “I know the ground is probably heavy, and there’s a chance we’ll make a mess, but we can always amend if it isn’t right if we labor and work a little more. It’s a beautiful day. I want to be in […]
SUN-WOKE
“Moral perfection consists in man’s being moved to the good not by his will alone, but also by his sensitive appetite, as in the words of psalm: ‘My heart and flesh sing for joy to the living God.’”—Catechism of the Catholic Church, 1770. _____ There was something of the morning sun that touched […]
LOVE-SONG SIGN
Through window view of second floor shone evening fire sky in flame of orange and yellow light before onset of the reds and fade of violet hues, nighttime’s answer and western mirror to morning dawns and suns of the east. Awed, alive, inflamed at fire sky, she signed her spirit in start of […]
NEWSPAPER FAME
“All bow down before wealth. Wealth is that to which the multitude of men pay an instinctive homage. They measure happiness by wealth; and by wealth they measure respectability…It is a homage resulting from a profound faith…that with wealth he may do all things. Wealth is one idol of the day and notoriety a […]
A CREATIVE LIFE
“I want to live a Creative Life,” he spoke. “I want to live, share, and experience in the company—mind, spirit, and body—of others who desire to live and share the same. I want to express. I want to exchange. I want to live and find and trade in mutuality of openness when there […]
WARM SPELL
They walked together trail and trees over Ozark mountainside, and in the warm spell sun, his mind returned into a memory that played in thought again. Willing, resisting drift and distance, he remained within the present. “Do you ever relive memories that were never more than thought?” he asked. “A story written, […]