by Susan | May 20, 2019 | inspiration, poem
The man at the table across from mine is eating yogurt. His eyes, following the progress of the spoon, cross briefly each time it nears his face. Time, and the world with all its principalities, might come to an end as prophesied by the Apostle John, but what about...
by Susan | May 15, 2019 | inspiration, poem
Roach, foulest of creatures, who attacks with yellow teeth and an army of cousins big as shoes, you are lumps of coal that are mechanized and when I turn on the light you scuttle into the corners and there is this hiss upon the land. Yet I know you are only the common...
by Susan | May 12, 2019 | inspiration, News Stories
Working for justice requires never-ending vigilance by Mario Marcel Salas The human spirit seeks a better world. We battle for the dignity of humankind at every level. We should always be apprehensive for those marginalized and left in vulnerable positions. However,...
by Susan | May 9, 2019 | inspiration, poem
It is a kind of love, is it not? How the cup holds the tea, How the chair stands sturdy and foursquare, How the floor receives the bottoms of shoes Or toes. How soles of feet know Where they’re supposed to be. I’ve been thinking about the patience Of ordinary things,...
by Susan | May 5, 2019 | inspiration, poem
More than the fuchsia funnels breaking out of the crabapple tree, more than the neighbor’s almost obscene display of cherry limbs shoving their cotton candy-colored blossoms to the slate sky of Spring rains, it’s the greening of the trees that really gets...
by Susan | May 2, 2019 | inspiration, poem
It May Not Comfort You It may not comfort you to know— But if the time should ever come When lily and delphinium Are trampled to their doom And only weeds are left to grow— (Where has the gardener gone? And who will mow the lawn?) It may be comfort in your need To...
Compassion Here! This Week in SATXMay 15, 2019
Compassion Here! This Week in SATXMay 8, 2019
Compassion Here! This Week in SATXMay 1, 2019
Compassion Here! This Week in SATXApril 24, 2019
Compassion Here! This Week in SATXApril 17, 2019
Compassion Here! This Week in SATXApril 10, 2019
