One thing I’ve noticed—and I’m noticing it a lot lately—whenever I’m in a totally unlikely place where there seems to be no rhyme or reason to me being there, I’m right where God wants me. This morning it meant spending several hours with an Ethiopian Orthodox congregation celebrating their world-wide church anniversary. I was invitedContinue reading “An Ethiopian Saturday in L.A.”
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A Poet’s Glance at Random Acts of Kindness
GIFT For a hundred miles the fields have worn beards of ugly stubble and night is falling and you can’t find a lover, not on AM or FM, and the hand at the toll booth wears a glove so as not to touch you. You pay for yourself, then for the car behind you, soContinue reading “A Poet’s Glance at Random Acts of Kindness”
Picture Yourself on a Grid
A google maps view of your life in relation to neighbors, if you will. Some you know. Most you don’t. Most you wouldn’t even recognize if they came to your door and said “I live a block a way and I need help.” But they’ll never say that. We never do. Unless a child isContinue reading “Picture Yourself on a Grid”
Heather Choate Davis 