Tag: catholic family life
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Christ’s Keeping
We make this life together, our own dusty prints over the road; our own hands making up and turning down the beds; our own mouths tasting the bitter and the sweet, the salty and the sour; like Rumi’s chick pea and cook, we are each other’s teacher, hitting each other with the skimming spoon, boiling in our passions and in…
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One Season Out of Many
“Love is patient.” ~ 1 Corinthians 13:4 Greetings, Kind Readers, I posted this over at thecatholicyogi.com, but I felt it was fitting for this space, as well. I hope you enjoy the prose in the midst of all the poetry. It is a new year in the Christian Church calendar, and a new season is…
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of grasping and giving (II)
The rubied pearls of pomegranate sparkle in their halved bowl, the depth of red juice filling in the gaps where the membrane segments and cradles the seeds like yolks in whites in shells. The full leafed plants languish in the November garden while the children push their root systems into their still-warm earth, crushing the…
Amy Secrist 