November 20th update

I am going to read from C.S. Lewis on Thursday, Nov. 20. I am doing so in remembrance of the anniversary of his death on Nov. 23, 1963 at the age of 64.  I was surprised he was so young.
He died the same day J.F. Kennedy was assassinated and so the news was a bit overshadowed.

a couple of poems I wrote while I was away

A rubbish of regrets

     are piled high

                as I look back now

                on being a father

                in the shadow

                   of a Father God,

perfect in love,

exposing what I have missed

in my shot at love

and left a mess around the targets of my desire

A sludge of stress

streatched thinner than a thread

constantly pulling

tight, knotted around

my heart and mind

In the presence of the Divine

who always lets go

exposes the sticky dew of the threads of my web.

A mire of madness

swells beneath my dreams

and sucks my shoes from my feet

as I try to move.

So I stop.

And I see a frog,

hear a duck

and feel the worms

and finally become incarnate

with the mud my Mary

   apart from God now,

so that I might know the love of God now.

 What has God ordained?

Hoist high the failures

And broadcast my misfortune,

These are the seeds of my legacy

 This is the source of my Nile

        nourishing any semblance of meaning.

Set the course to where I have vowed not to go

and do not look back;

set as a sail  my dirty laundry

For here begins my epic tale,

This is my journey to Ithaca

What has God ordained?

Not my wisdom gilded expertise,

But the caves in my depression,

and the sores that might have healed,

      still oozing with tears of regret;

Here is where the holy hands are extended. 

I have been gone sorry

I will return on Thursday, November 20th.
I was out of town for over a week and the station had no power before that.
sorry.

Going to be Away for a week

SORRY FOR NO SHOW ON NOV 4 an 6 but we had no power at the station.
and on NOV. 11 and 13 and 18 I will be out of town.  Sorry.  I look forward to returning on the 20th.  It is a great joy for me to do this show and I have missed it and will miss it.