The Gold Rush rolled us up like an avalanche over a Telluride mine, depositing giddy excitations and lusts in our hearts for new things. I begat a mind to wander. Newly ordained, I stayed on to pronounce two friends, Bob and Sheri Larcom, man and wife, in a ceremony up at Red Rocks outside Denver […]
“I can’t believe you let yourself go like you have.” Not the last thing she said to me but in the Top 5. (The last thing I remember she said to me was one night during her final week—she sat up in bed and said, “I can’t do this”—in reference to her time of dying) […]
A few days ago, raking leaves in the back garden, a lovely American robin flew onto a tree near me. I spoke to it, “Hi, Pretty!” Not in my normal voice but a less threatening higher pitch, sweet and soft as I can sound voice. It fluttered in closer, landing on a fence post. What […]