One Wintry Night

Last Christmas Eve, December 2006, we decided to go to an evening viewing of The Nativity Story. After everyone else had retired for the night, I lay awake thinking by our living room window, mesmerized by the little display of shadows that the street lights play with pine boughs on the snow. I had heard [...]

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Perpetua et Felicitas

After reading the account of the passion of early Christian martyrs, Perpetua, Felicity and their three companions Revocatus, Saturus and Saturninus, I was inspired to write this poem. It was one of my earlier attempts at poetry, about a year and a half ago, so its meter and flow may be found lacking, but I [...]

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Bienvenidos!

Welcome to the cool shade of my stately Ponderosa! I should like to say “welcome to my humble abode”, but being the wanderer that I am, I will have to greet you from whichever corner of the world I currently think, forget to think, and breathe (which I rarely forget to do). At the moment, [...]

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