[…] the lessons, too. I appreciate that Rueckert never apologizes for the truth, and never tries to strong -arm the reader into accepting it. She simply places the truth gently on the table and tells […]
[…] It was badly sprained. My only alternative, it seemed, was to send my sweet, timid little eight -year–old daughter alone, down the dark path to the village to get help. Halla started out, but […]
[…] the swarm of people who stopped in the rain, in the dark, to gather you all up—God -sent people, no doubt, now departed for their various random destinations, whom you will now never have […]
Some nights here there’ve been singings the children out into twilight . . . their countings,their hidings, their ally ally oxen frees.And sometimes the crickets were not sounding bereft but offered impressions you needed to hear. Now in…
when birds disappear taking strips of light folded in feathersnight insects ready themselves for meals from leaves of rose and raspberrythe hollow by the lane pools with evening like waterno moonrise cool radiance but night…
[…] to the south, the route you came. Haze of smoke northwest, where you are going. A wide -spanned hawk vanishes with such ease into the next scene. Note: The Dialogue Foundation provides the web […]
It’s turning fall in this long alley of young trees,poplar leaves still and golding in deep shade.You see no one and hear not even birds. But the pale trunks together seem to humlike choir rows,…
The summer of 2021 brought a greatly anticipated event to the LDS -Mormon art community: the opening of the Center for Latter–day Saint Arts’s gallery in Manhattan. Its inaugural exhibition, Great Awakening: Vision and […]
Down the streettrusties from the state hospitalfollowing the horizon of their noon shadows,their feet scooping up the sidewalk,the fastest as slow as the slowest.The sun is on them and pitiless.If we, shaded neighborson the other…
[…] I learned that 1993 represented a kind of death for members of the Mormon studies community. Since the 1970s, Latter -day Saint women had been challenging the limited role the Church provided for female spirituality.