whoever’s
left holding the bag again
playing the Lone Ranger
admittedly holding on
more than reaching out
for some helper
other than Tonto
maybe this is too much
about the mask or headband
whomever’s
Category: Wild Card
Regarding the myth of the self-made man
You know, “I did it all on my own,” with no credit to anyone else.
It’s not the way things really work, for one thing. Think of all the support needed to survive, learn, and achieve — family, teachers, coaches and mentors, colleagues, customers, buyers, employers, friends, partners.
For another, every man for himself leaves no room for God, much less other people.
Deep down, that has to be incredibly lonely. How does someone like that mask the pain or the fear of falling?
A year of puffin-viewing tours to Machias Seal Island sells out in 45 minutes
The narrow, mile-wide island, claimed by both Canada and the U.S., is treasured by many birdwatchers for having the largest colony of nesting puffins along the Maine coast.
Trips to the island are limited, so much so that when online reservations for daily summer visits opened at 8 a.m. on January 10, all the tickets were booked in 45 minutes – at $180 a seat.
Sounds like a real bucket-list item, even if the boat sails from Cutler in my own Sunrise County.
Be warned, too, that the weather can be iffy, meaning that reservation might be cancelled on short notice.
Should I start considering a trip to Newfoundland if I really want to see any of the distinctive birds?
Kinisi 104
a lively cabbage
moth
in its merry shroud
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!
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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?
