We had another mass shooting in Colorado just the other day. Ten people were murdered in a King Soopers grocery store in Boulder, just north of my hometown of Denver. And we don’t even have the luxury of exclaiming “How can this be? This has never happened before!” It’s more… Read More »Here We Go Again
This poem was written in mid-January of 2021, after the insurrection at the US Capitol, and before the inauguration of President Biden. It had its birth as I walked around the college campus in our neighborhood. The play of early afternoon sunlight through chain link fencing on the nearby… Read More »Shadow Climber
Friends of mine once sent me a video of their new Golden puppy (OMG, what is more adorable than a Golden puppy!!) discovering snow for the first time. This poem just flowed out from that, pretty much nonstop. Then I thought of my newborn son (from many years ago, and… Read More »Wholly Wonder
This blessing was written for an interfaith service of prayer and healing on November 4, 2020, the day after the election. It is also available as a PDF document. The blessing may be done by two readers, who alternate lines, and who share the final line. Be blessed, you who… Read More »Be Blessed
This song is probably the most theological piece on the whole website. I mean, I mention God in each verse, and three times in the refrain! I’m worn out. As I explore more about this Being many of us call God, I keep coming back to the thought that “God”… Read More »Who Is this God Who Calls to Us?
A reflective, somewhat confessional, rumination for these days of social division — the full piece is below, and it is posted as a PDF document. I had a lovely pair of socks that I refused to wear for two years. They were part of a collection of socks I once… Read More »Start with Your Socks