Forever a Foreigner

Is your strength gone or what, that you’re afraid and aren’t serving God? (aren’t serving God) Is your strength gone or what, that you’re afraid and aren’t serving God? His favor is enough, is enough, enough for you now, Oh, yes,​ dear one! God’s grace is enough, is enough, enough […]

What is a moment? A moment is the space between one breath and the next, the pause when sounds and silence are taken together. Listen. Time hangs suspended, dust in a sunbeam. The world is still; thoughts quiet. Then- gone. Look away from the screen. Pause. Have a moment. *** […]

The sea sounds— relentless rush of rain, full on a clear night. Sewn into the sable sky, high stars glint in their patterns. The moon hangs, suspended, a dark sphere in a bright cradle, a golden hammock slung on a void. Out of the sea a hundred white wings of […]

I saw my first lion dance when I was maybe six years old. I heard the drumbeat and the gongs first and ran out to the street. It was hot and sunny, and the coconut trees threw deep frond-shaped shadows on the red dirt. I could see the man with […]

I stood outside my one-room apartment. It was nearly 4 AM. I had padlocked my front door and gone outside the gate with my one suitcase and a plastic basket for my cat. Said cat was on my shoulder, because I had already discovered that he hated the basket and […]