Twenty Years After September 11th, This Day of Lamentation
For those of us who remember that day, we are forever in that day. The day does not stop. It is with us, that eternal, infernal day.
Lamentation
The Days of Our Dead – Plague Epistle XI
We can remember that the dead are never dead, that the dead are never gone. That the dead haunt us and visit us and form us. They appear when we least expect it and they are gone when we need them most.
“This” and The Trauma of Easter – Plague Epistle X
When we incorporate this virus into our daily rhythms and our children and grandchildren learn this time of human history, how do we explain it?
Encountering Death on Good Friday – Plague Epistle IX
And with that, Jesus dies. Death surrounds us like we have never experienced and Good Friday strikes right to the heart. The single event of the Crucifixion overturned everything in the disciples' lives. The communal event of this plague has overturned everything in our lives. Death does not become. It always is. Today of all
Enjoy the Silence – Plague Epistle VIII
Enjoy the Silence - Plague Epistle VIII I have never really focused on contemplative silence. I don't consider myself a contemplative, but the silence that accompanies grief and exhaustion is with me, now. I welcome it.