One Page Torn From The Book of the Names of the Dead

One Page Torn From The Book of the Names of the Dead

I’m walking on the dead, treading them down to nothing but the crackling scraps of fiery leaves I kick to extinguish them. Urbin Fiers    Bertha Dick    Mykola Markovsky    Pieter Ombregt   Margaret Menino. I read yesterday their handwritten names on one page of the...
Christ’s Entry into Brussels in 1889

Christ’s Entry into Brussels in 1889

When I pick up my 90-year-old father-in-law to drive him to the early service at Galilee Church, where he has gone for the last quarter century, he hobbles out through the two automatic doors of the retirement home on his flimsy wood cane. He has lost weight so his...