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The Hungry Pelican

Exploring Creation Through the Lens of Faith and Creative Writing

An Amy Dog Eulogy

My house smells like a pet store. Or maybe a dog kennel. It is the smell of three dogs who dislike baths but love to play, shed, and nap...

Walking on Water

A languid mood occupied Wrightsville Beach at seven in the morning. A few cars paraded the streets. Shopkeepers unlocked grocery marts...

Creative Droughts and Spiritual Famines

The creative life is the greatest life you shouldn’t bother with if you have a choice. It comes at you, stampeding down the slopes of...

Kindred Spirits

You would think birds would be the main attraction on Bird Island. But they aren't. The main reason most people hike to Bird Island is to...

Phineas Gage and The Fully Human Jesus

I’ve run out of ideas. I bounce from one notion to another. Maybe, I think, I’ll write a on flowers. But no, that’s dumb, another essay...

Lamentations

I am sitting where hatred and indoctrination rest against each other like two sleepy dogs lying on a sofa. Here, in this no-man’s-land,...

Birds and Turtles and The Garden God Still Walks

The more I think about it, I’m really quite extraordinary. This may seem a radical departure from my regular Ash Wednesday demeanor –...

Vocation and Devotion

The air was far too cold for an April morning. Any right-thinking person would have opened the door, felt the cold, turned around and...

The Anonymous Gardener

Not another springtime meditation! God Almighty, who can bear another word about the smell of soil or the chatter of nesting birds. But...

Bored With Holy Week

I’ve written about some pretty grimy stuff in my blog. Just take a look at the last post where I droned on about my general anxiety...

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