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Category: THE MUSE

  • Prayer for Rain

    Prayer for Rain We’re waiting. We’re ready. We’re told it’s coming but it hasn’t happened, and we’re wondering, will it ever come? This four- year North American Drought gets scarier by each crusty day. The Santa Monica Mountains near my home are brittle and brown. The riparian shrubs shrivel while the mule deer and the…

  • It Was A Whale of a Time

    Julie Ellerton, a photo-journalist from Malibu, spent several hours with the whale. Her stunning photographs capture for me the poignancy of the whale’s magnificence and fragility, two seemingly opposing descriptions and yet the poetic essence of what nature’s gifts can be. What we purposefully did not include are images of children who climbed the whale’s…

  • A Seven Year Marker –Inspired By a Wonderful Book About Books

    Someone somewhat ambitious said, “Once in seven years I burn all my sermons; for it is a shame if I cannot write better sermons now than I did seven years ago.” I wonder if most writers feel this away about their work, whether they are sermons, sermon like, and preachy, or just plain seven years…