Sometimes it seems like our whole culture is aligned against the deep commitments of a marriage that lasts over many years. There are rough patches that can last months, that…
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The Week of April 12, 2026 The willows are alive with red wing black birds. A squirrel ran across the road. Aiden alerted and pulled hard on the leash. I…
The Ring We need to get you something for Christmas,” Bruce said. Christmas gifts can be difficult here. “I’d like to get you an Oura ring.” He’d seen the slick…
Was it Angels or Merely Sun rays? Does it matter? The sky slanted– gray shafts cloud to cloud streaming silver bars looked like angels, not the kind with wings blooming…
Sunday, March 8, 2026 The wind is brisk this morning. The sky so clear and clean I could see the faded gibbous moon off to the east. When the moon…
Monday, January 19, 2026 One evening I looked out the window, Orion was close, and swollen, to the west of the barn, in front of the kitchen window. Where before…
Friday, January 16 While it was still dark, and I would remain in sleep, the snowplow scraped by. He went north and came back south. We had a bit of…
Sunday December 28 It’s raining warm buckets today. I let Mrs Horse out to stretch her legs, but the rain is so persistent, she stood by the barn, her hay…
The day before Christmas Eve I walked Omalola behind the shed and manure pile. The sun had dropped behind the horizon to pull in a darkness with presence. The clouds…
Martin Shaw in Keeping Focus spoke about how St. Brendan was visited by the angel Michael in the form of a bird. “It was the sound of God announcing his…