Psalms and Songs

The end's not nearIt's hereAlleluiaSpread the cheerAnd watch the millenariansThrow a party for a thousand yearsYou won't see the pious prayingThey'll be too busy flayingAll the martyrs with better waysTo stop the world decayingIf you call me I won't be homeI'm hiding from the kingdom comeThey can't see everything on earthWith the satellites and the

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.

Yesterday was the first day this plague overran my mental defenses. I sat in my chair for long spells staring. Time languished and curdled with disuse. I felt like I was waiting for something that would not leave. I heard church bells as I looked for my car, only to find that it had been

In the beginning… God reveals to us, in the voice of Frances McDormand, that we are wrong. Specifically, we are wrong about beginnings and we are wrong about time. And if there are fundamental things that we as a species are obsessed about they are when and how things start and how and why things

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3M_Gg1xAHE4 Today is the seventeenth anniversary of when aircraft knives cut through the cool, blue sky into the fabric of our lives. It always happened this morning. It always is like it was yesterday. Such is life after trauma. Such is life after trauma. I keep saying that. I keep hearing myself say that, as