Acts 23 – 25 The rooster started crowing at 3am outside my small REI wrought tent pitched on the family compound of Madame and Samuel Cassius in Montrouis, Haiti, a verdant banana palm village on the coast 90 miles North of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The perimeter of the compound was surrounded by fire-bush, and just beyond …
Acts 22 Learning a language is an affair of the heart. I did not fall for German in seventh grade at Ridgeview Junior High despite Miss Steinhaus’s svelte appearance and academic encouragement. What would have happened if, at that tender age, I’d enrolled instead in Spanish? Señor Rodriguez had seemed wound awfully tight, and Miss …
29 ¿Se Habla Español?: REFLECTION, Thursday, May 28th Read More »
Acts 21“Look Homeward Angel,” published in 1929, was Thomas Wolfe’s first novel. It was 40 chapters long, autobiographical, and a coming of age story set in a fictional stand-in for his home-town of Asheville, North Carolina. Wolfe’s last novel, published in 1940, finds the author continuing to struggle with the meaning of Asheville, North Carolina …
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Acts 20As a boy I always enjoyed slide shows. These were family affairs during visits to the grandparents after dinner and homemade sour cherry pie. Mysteries were revealed, accompanied by popcorn and orange Fanta. My parents had existed before I came into the world, indeed, had lived lives separately from one another and had dated …
27 Fanta and Popcorn: REFLECTION, Tuesday, May 26th Read More »
