Earthly (Lent #16)

Have you moved recently? Packed all your earthly possessions into a moving truck and driven across town/state/country? I have several times in the past few years. Even when we had a moving company haul our stuff from point A to point B, it wasn’t much fun. Purging and packing and hauling and sorting. Spending hours trying to find […]

Hear (Lent #15)

“Hear, ye! Hear, ye!” I’ve often been a bit intrigued by the idea of a town crier. How did you get the job? Was having a strong, loud voice it? Who decided what news was to be shared? A king/queen? Some town official? Was it only decrees about “do this”, don’t do that”? What if […]

Lift (Lent #14)

Somewhere between 15 – 20″ of snow have fallen in the past week where I live. That’s a lot of snowballs and snow forts and snowmen (people?). It’s also meant quite a bit of snow shoveling. Now, it’s winter and one should expect to shovel some snow if you live in a place (like I […]