I held your hand

I held your hand

 I held your hand. The ancient bone beneath the flesh had been there since the dawn of time: you were an immemorial fact which none could cancel. Our staunch pact could not be broken. None could rinse away the rhyme   and reason of that Elie beach with everything...

Your Kingdom Come

It’s a long way off, but inside it there are quite different things going on: festivals at which the poor man is king and the consumptive is healed; mirrors in which the blind look at themselves and loves look at them back; and industry is for mending the bent bones...
 In heaven and on earth, our Father

 In heaven and on earth, our Father

  …my soul was stirred and once again you came, a passing vision, a glimmer of beauty pure. In fullness beats my heart, feeling once again the resurrection of divinity, and inspiration, and life, and tears, and love.   Alexander Pushkin...
Timeless serenity

Timeless serenity

  God grant me the serenity, To accept the things I cannot change, The courage to change the things I can, And the wisdom to know the difference.   Living one day at a time; Enjoying one moment at a time; Accepting hardship as a pathway to peace; Taking, as...
Build your ship of death

Build your ship of death

Have you built your ship of death? O, have you? O, build your ship of death, for you will need it.   D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930).