Dream of Laughter
At 7:10 A. M., I awoke with this dream of laughter: I have joined a small mixed group of retreatants for a weekend of prayer and meditation in the forest, the sounds of the river, nearby, humming with...
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At 7:10 A. M., I woke with this corrective dream: A senior myself, I decide to move into a Jewish apartment complex, shabby in appearance, its property split by the rails of the Metrolink. In the...
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“Get ready! Get set! Go!” yelled our high school coach, its fierceness goaded my heavy legs to run the perimeter of the hockey field with my gym class. Instead, a swish of dark tunics whizzed by me...
View ArticleSleep
Sleep, one of the symptoms of my terminal illness, is shrink-wrapping my gift of twenty-four-hour living. Your will, not mine, be done.
View ArticleAn Ailing Tree
Sixteen years ago, we met: a mature sweet gum tree shading the front of my new bungalow with rich green foliage. It had survived the city’s removal of a large limb, its wound long healed. Months...
View ArticleGentle Fire
Daily adherence to my routine of self-care, basically unchanged since last March, convinces me that countless prayer supports this uncharted journey in which I’m largely content. My gratitude soars, my...
View Article“Wondrous Gratitude”
There is gratitude, and then there is “wondrous gratitude,” a phrase taken from Step XI’s Recipe for Recovery (2015). There is gratitude from habit, and there is gratitude from attention. There is...
View ArticleAffirming Dream
At 6:10 A.M., I awoke with this affirming dream: Advent will soon arrive and our group plans our annual project. Instead of buying holiday gifts for loved ones, we will bake pastries in each other’s...
View ArticleComposting
Images of spiritual cleansing abound, but one with a strong appeal is composting, discovered in my psychic depths through the study and practice of the Twelve Steps of Chronic Pain Anonymous. Much of...
View ArticleClosure
Whenever I have been in overwhelming situations, it has always helped to write about them. My terminal illness, Interstitial Lung Disease with Rheumatoid Arthritis and the enormity of facing my...
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