Category: Wild Card
According to his dad
The kid was so stubborn that if he fell in the river, he’d drown, trying to swim upstream.
Kinisi 103
warm odor of a log cabin
somewhere back in my childhood
fix this, fix that
while wondering how things might have been different
Truly, he is risen!
For Eastern Orthodox Christians around the world, today is Pascha, or Easter. Having already celebrated at midnight and into the wee hours of the morning, the faithful return for a late-morning vespers service where the Gospel reading is from John 20:24-28, the story of the disciple Thomas, “the Twin.”
Rather than relying on second-hand rumors, he demands first-hand knowledge.
Wisdom, arise!
Kinisi 102
crack in the dawn
doorways in seeds
perchance a season of great harvest
‘Why look among the dead for someone who is alive?’
Rather than portraying the women disciples at the empty tomb, Rembrandt focuses on one of the angels and the world-changing impact of their message.
Luke 24, by the way, describes them not as angels, with wings, but rather as two men in shining garments or brilliant clothes or even gleaming like lightning, depending on the translation.
The words must have struck like a thunderbolt.
It was a snowball winter
Whatever that means.
Somehow, the description I scribbled on a slip of paper still hits the mark for me.
So how was yours?
Ricochet history
Bush-Cheney was a recipe for disaster
that then festered
and then look what we got
BUSHMASTER assault rifles
definitely not for hunting, dear
Kinisi 101
basket makers as a subset of weavers
all with more peaceful wisdom
or patience than I own
A definite sign of spring
Around here, you know spring has arrived when you see your first boat riding a trailer down the street. An uncovered boat, free of its shrink-wrap or tarp. Behind a battered pickup, of course.
And you can bet yourself that by the end of the day, you’ll have seen a second, if not more.
Who cares if there’s still ice on the lakes?
Jnana's Red Barn 