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This thing has feathers. (pinned post)
Tags: UncategorizedYeah, yeah, I misquoted Dickinson. (She wrote, “Hope is the thing with feathers,” not “Hope’s the thing…” But this is a meme I made a while back that isn’t really a meme because it’s not meming, but it does seem, unfortunately, to be evergreen: Feel free to use it if you like, though.
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Being lost for the fun of it. A blog post as meandering as it sounds.
Streets keep turning up where they shouldn’t—unless my map’s the wrong way ’round. It’s useless anyway: the streets here are unlabled. Daylight’s quickly drifting off in no discernible direction. My viewfinder has led me here, although I don’t know what I’m looking for, exactly. Traces of something…but how would I recognize it? Here, old and…
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I seem to be writing again!
A few days ago, I finally had that feeling other poets surely know, that sense of, I’ve got a poem to write.” It was the first time since my move home to Detroit at the beginning of June—the first time in several months, actually. Over the past few days, I’ve drafted and revised two poems…
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Why it’s been quiet here for a month…
Tags: UncategorizedI just wanted to briefly note here that I’m in the process of moving back to Detroit! Yay!!! Things have been quiet here as I’ve been wrapping up my life in California, finishing up my comprehensive exams (part of the PhD program I’m in), saying good-byes, sorting through and getting rid of all that stuff…
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The ordinariness of God
Tags: Theological reflectionI work in a church—literally, in the church, not in the offices attached to it. My work is mostly preparing for worship services. Tomorrow is Palm Sunday, which involved a fair amount of preparation. But that’s not what I want to write about. Because the church where I work combines all our Palm Sunday services,…
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The Spirit of Detroit and Christian Hope
The Detroit city motto has become better known in recent years, thanks to the proliferation of books—about the city’s history, and, yes, about the ruins, by authors who live in the Metro Area and love the city—and of merchandise such as bookbags, t-shirts, postcards, and other items you might find at City Bird, the Detroit…
The Sound 