Table Talk by Laurie Klein “What time is it?” “What’s for dinner?” “Why am I here?” Ancient, universal questions: Silently or aloud, we still ask them. Questions like these arise…
by Laurie Klein Symmetry A WOMAN BOWS over her potter’s wheel. She centers the clay’s ungainly heft, digs in her thumbs to create a hollow, then coaxes the sides upward.…
by Laurie Klein, Who but God would conceive an equinox? September 22nd marks a Northern Hemisphere celebration. As if astronomically centered on “going halves,” we enter a sacred equipoise: ancient…
by Laurie Klein, World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation Everything is interconnected, and genuine care for our own lives and our relationships with nature is inseparable from fraternity,…
by Laurie Klein I will show them my wonders. —Micah 7:15 Without bees, life would languish. Essentially entwined with humanity’s welfare, honey bees deserve our support for their work in this…
by Laurie Klein An annual date dedicated to celebrating trees Say you have one day to live. This one. What would you do? See the ocean? Meet your hero? Sky dive? …
by Laurie Klein Overheated, parched, I beelined for the mini-fridge. The small unit hunkered on the motel floor, humming to itself. Cool water waited within. But the door’s rubbery seal resisted…
by quest writer Laurie Klein, Yearning never phones ahead. No heads-up email, no text. No forwarded ETA. Amid tinsel and fudge and LED stars, yearning appears in unguarded moments. Sometimes…
by Laurie Klein, guest writer I repurpose bird cages as garden sculpture, tuck them among perennials like miniature cottages in a country village: a personal peaceable kingdom. Last month, I…
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