Tag: community

  • Finding Light: Poetry

    Finding Light: Poetry

    Around a table at El Mag as the days grow short. A warm place in the early dark of December. I had a Burrito To Go— misnamed because I always eat it there. There are so few lights on the peninsula at night; much more darkness as raccoons meander across untraveled roads. Waves lap empty…

  • Long Arcs and Stumbling Blocks: A Break Down (Because) of General Conference 2019

    Long Arcs and Stumbling Blocks: A Break Down (Because) of General Conference 2019

    It took two weeks of explaining before I broke down trying to get through one more rundown of what happened in St. Louis.* Of course, I felt the pain of it even while I was at the General Conference. The Tuesday night it ended I stayed up late writing notes to former seminary classmates and…