A Time for Day

A Time for Day

The day dawns gradually. Whatever, the weather conditions, day comes steadily. Around 4:53 a.m., the sky is midnight blue. So dark is it that the blinking lights on top of distant buildings are crystal clear as they do the off-on safety warnings. A plane periodically...
A Time for Day

The Pool

The swimming class was a requirement. The petite freshman was not going to miss getting her degree from the university because she was timid about being in large bodies of water. The housing of the pool was an enormous space in one of the athletic buildings. The pool...
A Time for Day

Solitude

Far have I roamed from you. I return to your calm and your peace. Last week we wrote about the practice of silence; this week we look at solitude. The two are not the same although they work in tandem. Both can be practiced alone or in a crowd, the former context...
A Letter to Parents on National Parents’ Day 2021

Noise/ Silence

Noise shatters being. Silence knits being. Both ever present each day. Early one morning while working from home, I made a discovery. Better wording would be, I found something that I had lost. On this morning, I awakened, did a brief prayer, and did not turn on the...