Monthly Archives: July 2019

Zugzwang

Posted on July 31, 2019 by Rev. Gretchen Haley

By the time we sat in the room where life turned from what was, to what would be I had barely begun to believe there was a game, and we were players there was a strategy, and you intended to … Continue reading →

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dukkha

Posted on July 25, 2019 by Rev. Gretchen Haley

I found myself apologizing to the peaches again today, the green ones I found on the ground, near the coneflower that could never make it to bud After the hail, and the late snow, and my intermittent neglect, somehow they … Continue reading →

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My Children Try to Teach Me to Love Unfinished Things

Posted on July 24, 2019 by Rev. Gretchen Haley

for example, markers with lids half-on, coloring books set out with pages like butterflies, half-beautiful; my hands covered in raw meat, dripping and dangerous – or dirt, with the torch lilly barely out of the pot, ready to be surrounded … Continue reading →

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