Face the horrible
The waves of sadness and pain
Find strength together
Category: Modern Life
Looking at how we’re evolving culturally, and how humanity engages with itself, for good and for ill.
A Morning Meditation
Forcing wakefulness
I resist vigorously
Weariness grinds
I pull my dust together
And rise
Wednesday, traveling at high speed: A Haiku
Wednesday had gone past
So very much has been done
Longing for the trees
Monday’s Mania: A Haiku
Monday’s mania
Subdued by evening calmness
Autumn night’s stillness
Frenetic days:
I’m not fond of them.
Such is life.
Respond, work,
Move along.
Violence Bets Violence
A message from the bishop of my Synod in response to the recent horror in Las Vegas :
Violence begets violence.
Peace begets peace!
We must be about peace.
+ Bishop Kirby Unti
I found this a perfectly poetical statement, and a powerful part of his email introducing this letter.
Monday Morning Haiku: Boundaries
​It is important
To respect people’s boundaries
Not all hugs are safe
Walking In Seattle
Those evenings at dusk
Fashionable, Seattle style
Nights in my city
For Tom PettyÂ
At first, resistance
Everyone I knew
Adores all those tunes
Which , in my mind
Trite, vacant, and “No”
Glad to say that’s wrong
Gritty dissonance
Akin to Dylan
The honest seeking
Within his lyrics
Brought out the sunlight
In this darkened world
A Truly Horrific Day
Filled with painful news
Death, destruction and much pain
Manifest sorrow
“Athletic” Means Something New Now
As I get older
Athletic has new meaning
It applies to me
Carl Setzer: Word Shaper 