Going By Another Way
I’ve heard and read the story of the Magi visiting the infant Jesus* so many times that the words slide past me without registering anything other than a slightly bored familiarity. T.S. Eliot’s poem, which once upon a time startled me with its immediacy and particularity of detail, has now become yet another expected, regular […]
Two Tables
I had a waking dream as I looked up from the stony field I was tilling, my nose so close to the grindstone, my focus on the seeds that I was turning loose. Squinting in the sunlight, I wondered aloud, “What exactly is it that I’m doing?” In the hustle and rush of this unpredictable […]
Bearing Gifts
They caught my eye in a Guatemalan street market: three kneeling women and a bright star on a painted wooden fish. On the other side of the fish, there were farmers bearing gifts in a field of cornstalks – bread, fruit and a load of wood. Practical gifts. The kind that three wise women would […]