My NameBy Brian Ernest Brown what’s in a name it’s certainly a beginning and yet also an end born with a name full of hope, chained to a foisted definition at another time eulogized on granite in a field full of the same, just a name it’s a package of…
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Poetry, Prose & Prayer
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Inevitable
Like a sunset, some things are inevitable. And too like a sunset, the inevitable may just be as welcomed. Darkness is near and it will be time to rest. It is inevitable.
Poetry, Prose & Prayer
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Masts at Dawn
Masts at Dawn By Robert Penn Warren Past second cock-crow yacht masts in the harbor go slowly white. No light in the east yet, but the stars show a certain fatigue. They withdraw into a new distance, have discovered our unworthiness. It is long since The owl, in the dark…
Reflections, Musings & Meanderings
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The Work of St. Martin’s Lent: The Blessing of the Kindling
I awoke to a cold, drizzly, blue, mist-soaked morning here on Bear Mountain, and immediately two thoughts rose up in me. First, we have entered what I’ve long called the “blue time of the year”, not only in terms of how the season settles on the spirit, but in the…