Tag: Death
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Hard to find
When it comes to believing in (for want of a better word) an afterlife, the bottom line is of course faith. Everything else — religion, religious statues and ceremonies, rites and ritual, doctrine and dogma, even churches themselves, and cathedrals and temples, and even the Bible — all of which, albeit historically interesting, spiritually helpful…
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One by one they go
When old friends die. I sure miss Baxter. He was an old curmudgeon like me, but a huge cut above me in that he was a retired English professor and a published poet as opposed to me being a retired bum with a transient string of forgettable newspaper stories to my name. Like me he…
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The other side of Father’s Day
Father’s Day — and Mother’s Day five weeks ago — to all the parents out there whose sons and daughters are dead, dead from drug overdoses, suicides, killed in car crashes, killed in wars, murdered by madmen, dead from diseases that robbed them of the rest of their lives — to these parents, Father’s…
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Life in a parallel universe
In the parallel universe a young would-be poet named Will had his first poem published in a little-known literary magazine when he was seventeen. It was an amazing event in his life and promised a brilliant future. He went on to having more poems published in better known publications and by the age of twenty…
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The Holy Brain
God and the brain The human brain has 100 billion brain cells or neurons in a network of trillions of synapses — the juncture where a signal passes from one nerve cell to another. That’s like having our own personal universe, and like the universe, Christians believe, it is the creation of God. Therein lies…
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When old friends die
Insomniac awake all night Three a.m., not a breath of air coming in the open window, not a sound. I lie awake listening to the silence. The cat jumps onto the window sill and stares into the night. She sees things that I cannot see. Suddenly she turns, jumps down and races into the darkness…
Mary Saves the Day 