Coyote Laughter
March 26, 2018[…] be worthy to serve the Lord as Bishop?” Wayne could think of plenty. Yes, he thought. I’m human. But he tried to lighten the tone and said, “Well, Bob, like I said—I’m over sixty.” […]
[…] be worthy to serve the Lord as Bishop?” Wayne could think of plenty. Yes, he thought. I’m human. But he tried to lighten the tone and said, “Well, Bob, like I said—I’m over sixty.” […]
[…] Bernie just at this moment—the dark tent, Mitch’s occasional moaning, the vast rocky wilderness outside, indifferent to human plans and human desires. Sometimes Bernie believed God’s emanations filled the entire universe. You couldn’t go […]
[…] silhouette against the bedroom wall. The bedroom window was sliding up. It was not a dream. A human shadow was nearly indivisible from the web of tree branches fluttering on the curtain. Luis woke […]
It’s been ten weeks since Liz (my mother) came to collect me from the islands and pack me back to Michigan. She wanted me to tally my losses and get on with things. Liz has…
[…] is a cloudy burden that soaks you from toe to head, but a bakery! This is sanctuary, human sunshine. Good things grow out of bakeries, sweet, sugary glazes and odors that put hope back […]
[…] in fourth grade a nun told our class that one of the mysteries of God that the human mind could not comprehend was that God has been here forever. She said that as humans […]
[…] skin and scream. What did this man want, some kind of validation of his worth as a human being? A friendly, sympathetic sounding board? What? A service had been rendered and paid for, a […]
Lucy hated arguing with her companion in public, even though they argued in English so most people couldn’t understand what they were saying, and those who did could probably care less. They didn’t argue often,…
[…] American. If I’ve ever doubted that, it was clear the moment I walked into the humidity and human warmth of the Atlanta airport after a two-year church mission in the former East Germany: though […]
[…] you safe. You will die a natural death as is your due as a member of the human race. And until that time, you live as a reminder of a world that we have […]