Author: Will Schmit

the truth only sets you free as you speak

My day job just became a night job. I deliver packages and with the holiday upswing in consumerism I’m out until, well until the job gets done, which lately has approached midnight. If I were

The wet fields on the way to work, carpeted in sunset, await the returning geese.   A rainbow unmasks the clouds as the grey warehouse roof steams in the same rising sheen as the bay.

I knelt, silently, with a world of believers in Saint Peter’s Basilica. The colors of skin, the shapes of faces, the cut of the wardrobe all part of the fabric weaving us together. The pilgrimage,

If we lost all marble columns, Venetian mosaics, and blue vaulted basilicas, would the sky be canvas enough to hold our hearts still?   The Church, not a building but building our steps. One foot,

Unless you were born here, you must pass a citizenship test to become a citizen of the United States of America. You become naturalized by memorizing rules, regulations, and history. However you become a more

the grey glare a confederation of clouds a fog fury diffused light burning dull summer chilled to the bone.   temporate skin thick and thin the black and white history inked blood red on the

The ‘more’ of God we desire is in the ‘least’ of these we serve. I know this to be true because I saw a bumper sticker at a garage sale that read, “God is other

A riot closed the yard down at Pelican Bay State Prison in late May. Eight guards were stabbed, eight inmates shot. No fatalities, just the cost of doing business with violent offenders. We were scheduled