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The bright blessed day, the dark sacred night.
Z and one of the butterflies. Before seven this morning, I sat down on my couch, flipped open my laptop and read. I heard the tiny fluttering wings of the butterflies I ordered for Zoe as a science project. There were five of them in an enclosed habitat, and at my movement,…
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Some Sunday Stuff: May 3rd.
A rose in the vase at my table in a Cuban restaurant I visited on Wednesday. What a week. The riots in Baltimore brought out the media like a swarm of locusts, desperate to capitalize on the destruction of property. Meanwhile, the fatal injuring of Freddie Gray while in police custody was…
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Larry’s Daughter.
About twenty minutes after leaving the graveyard where we laid my father to rest, I stood in line at the nearby Starbucks. It’s “my” Starbucks, the one I spent hours studying in during college, where I took part in Bible studies, discussed matters of importance and frivolity with Joscelyne, and of late, just…
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Lent- Day 30: For whom the bell tolls.
(Wiki Commons) So I am totally being lazy in the Soren Kierkegaard class I’m taking. Assigned to read Plato’s “Euthyphro”, I haven’t been able to read more than a few pages before having my brain scream “Nope” and start daydreaming of how cute K would look in a pair of horn-rimmed glasses. …
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Lent- Days 27 & 28: We’ll always love Big Poppa.
My daddy passed away today a few minutes after one P.M. Defying expectations, he survived over two days off the respirator, which makes perfect sense knowing how big his heart was and how powerful those lungs, which powered a loud booming voice, were. I want to thank everyone who’s reached out to…
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Lent- Day 26: Waiting.
We sat today, waiting. Waiting for my dad to die. He was moved to hospice this week, and a little after 11 this morning, they shut off the respirator. My grandmother, cousin Velvet, her husband Mike, cousin John, brother Joe, his wife Jenny, stepmom Kathy, her sister Monica, K, Z and I all…
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Lent- Day 18: The sea of forgetfulness is better than the valley of the dolls.
Over the weekend I started watching the cancelled Fox show “Dollhouse”, available for streaming on Netflix. It came highly recommended by my brother Joe, who didn’t even have to “Sherlock” me into watching it. If you’re unfamiliar with it, here’s a quick primer from Wikipedia: The show revolves around a corporation running…
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Lent- Day 17- My spirit faints.
(Source) As a kid, I just couldn’t understand the Israelites. Why, after God delivered them out of slavery in Egypt, would they so quickly turn to making a golden calf to worship as a god? And then, as if that wasn’t bad enough, the minute they get their first real challenge, they started complaining “Oh,…
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Lent- Day 5: My tears have been my food.
“My dad is dying.” Those words flashed through my mind and then hung, like weights, in my thoughts, in my heart, all day today. My brother Joe called this morning and told me about his visit to see him yesterday. He’s back in the nursing home, having been discharged from…
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Lent- Day 5: My tears have been my food.
“My dad is dying.” Those words flashed through my mind and then hung, like weights, in my thoughts, in my heart, all day today. My brother Joe called this morning and told me about his visit to see him yesterday. He’s back in the nursing home, having been discharged from…
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