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not people

As I was picking blackberries this morning, I was startled by a little snake.  She was suspended in the blackberry thicket, maybe finding the air more pleasant than the wet ground, maybe hunting the frogs that inhabit the ditch below the berries.  For just a moment, I was an Eve – thinking about fruit, but…

to make peace

It is next to impossible in the middle of the night, when the sound of my family’s sweet sleeping fills my heart, to make peace with the senseless violence, the greed, and random tragedy of the world. These specters haunt my warm bed and torment my sleepy thoughts into a frenzy. I cannot protect those…