Butterflies, dragonflies, katydids, hummingbirds, ladybugs. Translucence; gossamer wings. Translucence breathes between the lines as Luke’s tells the story of Jesus’ appearance to the disciples after his resurrection; a gauzy presence; earthly and real, yet unearthly and beyond laws of space, gravity and time. While

They took each other’s arms and started to walk. Arm in arm they crossed the Alabama River on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama.  The Selma civil rights march, which took place 53 years ago this month. Just as Moses lifted up

_____ A married couple took in a homeless woman, and instead of showing gratitude, the woman turned them into Child Protective Services, accusing the parents of neglect, starvation and other abuses of their seven adopted, special-needs children. A family took a young man named

A woman stands in the front hall of her house.  Crying, she says to her son who is on his way out the door that he is the best son one could ever want and that she will always love

Hulu’s original series The Path takes us into the life of a spiritual community that holds at its center the vision of a ladder and challenges individuals to climb the rungs to get closer to what they call the Light. And he said

Who are you? Who, who, who, who? Who are you? Who, who, who, who? Who are you? Who, who, who, who? Who are you? Who, who, who, who?   In their classic song, The Who ask an essential question for

Technically, it was a burglary, but it felt like a robbery. A man and his nephew broke into our house nearly 40 years ago and took some $20,000 worth of silverware, jewelry and equipment. Heirlooms, wedding presents from parents, a

I’m dreaming of a white Christmas Just like the ones I used to know Where the treetops glisten and children listen To hear sleigh bells in the snow … . Uncle Joe was a test pilot in World War II

Plates jammed with meatloaf, collards, macaroni and cheese, steam rising in the air, the green, yellow and brown foods pushing up against each other, each flavoring the others, mingling the tastes and aromas. My friend Marvin and his wife are

And a little lamp shines.