I lovingly gaze back on that girl in bangs with a twinge of sadness and note of pride and wonder at whose idea it was to smear heavy on her warm insides the idea of personal responsibility for every person’s … Continue reading
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Author Archives: Danielle
Every Other
E V E R Y O T H E R some thingsskip generations likebuying generic and wearing bathrobes.for me it’s hearing the story of your birthand pillowing your face into your mother’sleftover skin from when you were in her.my mother’s … Continue reading
Please Tell the Others
I was wondering if we could agree To vote for freedom. Would it be too much to say that we, say, all of us, Vote for … Continue reading
Attend
Ups and downs, ups and downs.
Be gentle with the celebration and grief; they are our inhale and exhale and we live by both.
Our capacity for sorrow expands our room for joy and also that in reverse.
Be gentle, fellow traveler. We are sick and growing, pilgriming and arriving.
We are child and elder before each day; we come from a long line of experience and yet draw near the moment baby new.
Our best hope of living is exposure and contamination. Overcoming is choosing when to shower.
Hold out for meaning; the ocean is in each tear, each bead of sweat, each breath on the mirror.
Salvation is tender and deeper than you were taught to go; we are larger than we thought but smaller than we knew.
Attend, attend. Tend, tend. End, end.
Carpooling Home: a Chaplain’s Commute
I leave the parking lot of jacaranda trees and signs for “heroes” with my badge still on, stomach growling for dinner and spirit aching from helplessness. It’s the first day of the week. The purple blooms remind me of a … Continue reading
The Door of the Covid-19 Pandemic
“Be calm. God awaits you at the door,” whispers Gabriel Garcia Marquez, famed Latin American author in Love in a Time of Cholera. How does one be calm in a time of pandemic? How might we bring along our resources … Continue reading
Becoming Dust Again
Dipping my thumb into the small container of inky black ash, I would try to remember the name, find the name tag, or take a peek at the patient’s info board in the room. Deep breath. “You are beloved, [name]. Remember … Continue reading
So Far This Sucks
It is hard to proceed right now. Before the holidays, the president pardoned men that brave and diligent military officers brought to light as guilty of war crimes and dangerous to their cause. Now, mere hours into 2020, POTUS has … Continue reading
The Hospital Labyrinth
Like an ancient labyrinth of prayer, where there are no dead ends or wrong turns, only path, the hospital holds and pulls. It teaches us in the repetitive order hidden in chaos. A labyrinth of life and death, a space … Continue reading
Redeeming Emotions for Us All
His body was literally going in a circle, around on one side, his head the middle of a wheel spinning out of control. Kicking his legs against the carpet, he was moving his whole frame around and around, in a … Continue reading
