Not of this world
As Command Module Pilot for Apollo 11 in 1963, astronaut Mike Collins orbited the moon alone while his co-explorers Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin famously landed, walked and hopped on…
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Keepsake
Most of us keep mementos, keepsakes that we cherish, often in the form of photographs. They can be in a gold locket we wear around our neck. They can be…
Aquarius
It was the dawning of the age of Aquarius. Beads of all colors – red, orange, yellow, green, blue. Long frizzy hair on girls and boys, men and women. Tie-dyed shirts and dresses.…
Gossamer Wings
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,…
Love Unknown
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…
Two Coaches and a Geography Teacher
_____ 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…