Category: Stories
Homecoming
Two years, two months, and five days ago my precious wife boarded a plane by herself and flew 800 miles away from where were living to care for her mother who had only weeks prior suffered a “cardiac event” and had surgery to insert stents. (more…)
Eat! – Drink! – Be Merry!
The trek from the monastery to the village was a long one. The sun had risen immediately overhead, it’s heat bearing down on the two travelers. The pair was composed of the elder monk Aaron and novice Micah. Not far up ahead was a lone tree. “There is a small spring at the base of that tree. We will stop for a rest,” the old man announced. (more…)
IF
“If” by Rudyard Kipling
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or, being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise; (more…)