Photo by Ivan S on Pexels.com The ultrasound probe hurts today. Sara, the ultrasound tech, is chasing follicles, left and right, on both ovaries. There are so many! "Twenty three on the right," she states. Click click click. A faint groan escapes me as we dig deeper in my abdomen for the left ovarian check. [...]
The nursery is burning. Linen curtains whoosh into cinders in an instant, dropping to the floor without a trace. Were they ever there? The white bassinet I have saved for years is a melted mockery of twisted plastic. Nothing can be salvaged. All is ruin. The nursery, of course, is my uterus. Her outpouring of [...]
Photo by Tima Miroshnichenko on Pexels.com I hate what organized religion does to people. I hate how people turn into spineless puppets to defend a man-made system and lose their love of other individuals. I hate how individuals become objects to manipulate and control. I hate how organized religion lays heavy burdens on already sagging [...]
It's all a becoming, a not arrived yet. This glory-quest life is transit and trajectory. How then to stretch, a trembling filament, between one adhered branch and the intended other, extended, intending to connect and spin that cocoon. Faith cultures are complex. Shoot, faith is complex. But simple. Yet multi-faceted. And greater than ourselves and [...]
Tapestry Tales 