Monthly Archives: November 2023

11/30/2016 The stench of the colony, for some reason, overwhelmed me more today than any other time in the past.  The foulness of dead rotting skin and remnants of extremities, fingers with bone now showing, toes looking nothing like toes, … Continue reading →

08/10/2016 I watched from a distance, as the young babe looked intently, into the eyes of the aged woman I had come to love so very much.  She held him close, upon her bosom, and looked back, with the same … Continue reading →

06/18/2016 I sat, alone, though the throngs of inhabitants bustled in and around me, at the gate to our village, in a state of utter despair.  The light wind blew its fading hint of heat, mixed with a small taste … Continue reading →

01/23/2016                                                                                                        The warmth of the sand particles permeated every fiber of my being as I lay face down upon them; I was oblivious to their entrance into my facial orifices as I shifted my head from one side to … Continue reading →

10/21/2015 The “fever” was the simple diagnosis given by those around and though I could faintly hear their conversations, I was incapable of response in any form whether it be vocal and or with movement.  I was tired, actually a … Continue reading →

07/08/2015 I knew I was getting close.  The path once barren, unidentifiable at times and relentless in its daily offering of loneliness now widened a bit and brought a passerby, also weary, every so often.  Varying pockets of periodic wind … Continue reading →

02/24/2015 My heart beat finally slowed, my actions more deliberate, more calculated, as even the smallest task became paramount within my thought process and greater still in its fulfillment.  I lifted up the bottom portion of my mantle and the … Continue reading →

06/17/2014 Father, as we sit this morning, in your presence, our hearts stir for thee.  Our spirits, our innermost beings desire intimacy, and not just casual in nature, but to more of an extreme; they long, they yearn, with an … Continue reading →

06/10/2014 Peace… “Trying to find peace” were the words that an unsuspecting young man uttered, as he sat, defeated in his countenance, to an equally unsuspecting old man, me, as we sat near each other.  In humility and in a … Continue reading →

12/2/13 In the eyes of Joseph… I sit here alone in my thoughts as I watch Jesus carefully whittle away at the small table leg.  He was in the shop early this morning and must have sensed my frustration as … Continue reading →