Germantown

This is the first real travel since Covid began its long and challenging visit. I arrived two days ago in the City of Brotherly love, and have been settling in to a routine of prayer and discovery here in Germantown. I’m in Saint Margaret’s House at Saint Luke’s Church in Germantown. I am here as

Reset

I found, Without desiring to find That without Covid-infection One can be, will be, pandemic-changed Shifted by the very axis In ways defiant of definition. So I know, all this time (how much time?) later, that I move at 3/4 speed by comparison I speak at 1/2 speed of before I think on occasion, if

Saturday Morning on Earth

Entering vacation. My first night of vacation-sleep lasted ten unblinking hours somehow. As my grandmother would have said had she been puttering around the kitchen here this morning, “You must have needed it!” I woke with a backache and a languid canine awaiting attention patiently. I awoke as well with a strong sense that, despite

Seeing the Signs (1 Advent 2012)

First Sunday of Advent Jeremiah 33:13-16; Psalm 25:1-10; ! Thessalonians 3:9-13; Luke 21: 25-36 December 2, 2012 Yesterday morning I was walking the dog. The remaining green is only on the evergreens that we so value this time of year that we bring them into our homes as decorations for the celebration of the Incarnation