It’s mid-August and the living ain’t easy. Lots of the news has shaken us up lately. Sometimes it makes it difficult to focus on the good stuff in the world. I’m going take a little break from posting for a week or two, a staycation. So I’ll see you in September, so to speak, but before I go, I wanted to share with you a lovely poem I’ve long admired by Fran Podulka (Guest Post). Next time you go to a wedding, you'll think of this poem when you see the father of the … [Read more...]
Glimpse of Solace: Yellow and light
Lemon Sisters © Ellen Wade Beals, 2014 … [Read more...]
Guest Post: Fran Podulka “The Fitting”
The Fitting You turn, turn, turn as the seamstress pins lace onto the perfect hem of your wedding dress. You turn on command. Reflected over and over in the mirrored room you surround us. "Fits like a glove," the seamstress says, then crowns you with flowers silk and braided pearls, a froth of veil softens your wild, loose hair. Somewhere in the shop your father waits. Since you asked him to come that he should see you this way before the … [Read more...]
Solace of the faithful
Hello, hello. Almost August—can you believe it? I know I am old because time is passing more quickly, and not just because it’s summer. When I published Solace in So Many Words I made a decision not to include work that was overtly religious. There were several reasons for that. But I know that God and religion and faith and prayer are all-important sources of solace for many people. So today’s posts reflect that. Laura Rodley’s poem "Meeting the Father" in the … [Read more...]
Guest Post: Laura Rodley “Meeting the Father”
Meeting the Father Sister Isabelle Rose has met the Father, sits swinging in a long roped swing descending from Heaven where mists rise like those over the Holyoke Bridge. She sits swinging, her body slim her hair light brown, curled, no glasses set upon her nose, happy to be held in God’s grace but not in his arms, just as she was in the convent when married to his son, Jesus Christ, swinging through the … [Read more...]
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