Chickadee Waits – Nov. 29, 2022
“A chickadee on a winter night burns through all the calories it ate during the day. Before dawn, as soon as there’s light enough to see, the chickadee flutters out, famished, its tiny brain intent on seeds. Tiny, its brain, but bigger now, in Advent, than in spring… Inside that black skullcap his hippocampus is […]
Turtle’s Waiting – Nov. 28, 2022
“Sunk in its bottom-mud, for six months she will not draw air into her lungs. To survive a cold that would kill her, or slow her so that predators would kill her, she slows herself beyond breath in a place where breath is not possible… It’s this radical simplicity that will save her. And deep […]
Waiting: The Seedbed of Hope
Everywhere I go, people are busy with their cell phones: scrolling through emails, muttering messages, playing games or watching some video snippet. Filling time with our cell phones is now possible, and so we do it because others are doing it. On the Metro, in line at the grocery store, or sitting in a doctor’s […]
Callings – Recovery Cafe New Property! Lent, Housing, Dayspring Events, “Wild Hope”
Callings – Spring 2021 This issue of Callings starts off with exciting news from Recovery Café DC, who in partnership with Anacostia Economic Development Corporation (AEDC), have acquired an 8,000 ft² space for “café-style space on the ground floor, and approximately 36 units of new affordable housing on the top floors.” Amazing! Editor Marjory provides a 2021 […]
