But what if the past year doesn’t have much “happy” or the coming year seems to have an extreme weight of grief looming overhead? Christmas is a time of joy – when we celebrate the birth of the Christ child. Yet I recall that the promise of joy AND sorrow met in the manger ...
And the Lord God prepared ivy, and made it to come up over Jonah that it might be a shadow over his head, to deliver him from his grief. So, Jonah was exceeding glad of the ivy. (Jonah 4: 5–6) But here in the Ecstasis, the maguey, the green prongs of which can grow to ...
Letters to My Immortal Beloved is an uplifting, beautiful love story of struggle and resurrection of spirit. Some only dream of having a love this close. Reading Petras Letters to Beto is like finding a diary and wanting to search for the owner, to meet and ask questions of such a strong...
Mother’s Day always has mixed feelings, doesn’t it? Grief over loss of my own mom. Grief for those who wish they could be moms and just can’t. Joyful gratitude for moms and their influence on society. Thankfulness for my kids giving me my own motherhood journey. ...
During those breakups, I couldn’t eat or sleep or write my name without thinking about the rejection. I would wake up and hope that it was just a bad dream. But it wasn’t. It was real. So I had to live another day dealing with this weight of grief. Wounds do heal, though, ...
Love letters to India…and othersHome About the AuthorJan19 CAPTAIN PREDATOR Posted on January 19, 2022 by Daphne Freise Standard Also published in the Pearl S. Buck Literary Journal It’s been one-thousand seven-hundred and seventy-seven days. Four years, seven months, and twenty days. ...
At that point, before Indie publishing was a thing, my mom and I published a little picture book together. I wrote a short article about our personal journey, and an editor, Leon Ograski, fromThe Writers’ Journal,offered to publish the story and paid me $25. I was officially a publis...
LETTERSSeveral letters to the editor are presented in response to article "God's Community in the Castro" and related to death penalty and 50th anniversary of the marches in Selma, Alabama.LEONHARDT, LOUCICATELLI, BILLROSENBAUM, RICHARD W...
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Good Grief Para español, haga clic aquí “Why is high school graduation something to celebrate? It’s not a big deal. Isn’t it just expected?” my 17-year-old innocently asked while I ordered graduation announcements for him.