“Your way was through the sea; your paths through the great waters. Your footsteps were not known.” — Psalm 77:19, World English Bible.
You would think with a reference like that found in Psalms Christians would put more fuss and importance about our destruction of these “sweetwater seas.” After all, it is not everyone who […]
Having pneumonia is a strange thing. It attacks the lungs and fills them with fluid. You’d thing someone as interested in the mythic qualities of water as I am would welcome flood-like lungs, but no. I lay in bed with a fever and then chills. Everything aches. I have a […]
This will be my last entry for a week or so. I am bound on a hyperborean wind, off to Canada. Toronto waits somewhere near where the sun rises in the morning fog, if only the udder-heavy rain clouds did not obscure the sun so much. But what am I complaining about? […]
For Mother’s Day we went to the Detroit Institute of the Arts and viewed the traveling Walter O. Evans Collection of African American Art. One sculpture that stopped me and I have gone back to numerous time in my memory was Chicago artist Richard Hunt’s bronze Model for Middle Passage Monument (1987). That […]
Last night at work as I was reading a back issue of the New York Times, I came upon an article by Sarah Lyall, Aid Workers Are Said to Abuse Girls. I reprint it here:
LONDON, May 8 — Liberian girls as young as 8 are being sexually exploited by United Nations peacekeepers, […]