I wrote “Snapshots from the Family Album” for the 2016 Kentucky Arts Council’s “Where I’m From: A Poetry of Place.” It uses the structure and style of Kentucky Poet Laureate George Ella Lyon’s original “Where
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Each day is a treasure, a mystery to discover, a gift from the one who is Love. Some inspire wonder. Others present hardships. Each offers promise for growth. From daybreak to sunset, from dusk until
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True friends remind us of the truth in Ecclesiastes 4:9-10 (NIV). “Two are better than one … if one falls down, his friend can help him up.” We grieve a loss. A friend stops by
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I felt Your hand gently upon my shoulder. “Fear not, my child. You must be bolder.” I felt Your breath upon my neck, whispering in my ear, “Don’t look at the speck.” Your booming
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“Play It Again,” captures bittersweet memories and emotions of family and friends who gathered at our house on Friday or Saturday nights. The men played music. Women talked and laughed. We children played outside until
Read moreYule Sawe Mungu is a rough translation Our Same God in Swahili
Read moreThe dream forwards.We’re weeks from grand baby to be,plums barely clinging to the branch. The ocean, a little further thanthe next door rooster, breaks on the beachanticipating our family strolls. God has no grandchildren.The one
Read moreHis Blood’s thicker than water that much we already knew. His Blood’s thicker than Pepsi I tell you that’s Good News for the generation. His Blood’s thicker than cowboy coffee boiling under the stars, thicker
Read moreA curtain of birds slights the silver bay light. June vines vault the hedge with berry blossoms and thorns. Our son’s offered work, and my coffee’s warm as the sun. I’ll seek counsel to deal
Read moreThe final splay of our tulip is a table top Ferris wheel purple petals wide as a lion’s mane. Flowering jumble in a water jar, the bulb bring life and the stem snipped for the
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