Daily Connector | Blessed | Ryan Schellenberg
My apocalypse has been strangely tranquil. At first I thought it was the calm before the storm. And maybe it will be. But for now, at least, life at our home feels like a sort of extra-long weekend, each day at least part Saturday, unhurried. Shedding the kids’ activities, our…
Daily Connector | New Normal | Dan Halterman
A favorite from my list of quotes is Wordsworth’s “Tell me, what has become clear to you since we last met?” It seems so perfectly invitational and is still classy after 200 years of war, famine, disease, manipulation – the normal state of humanity. A news article from a month…
Daily Connector | Why Are You Sad, O My Soul? | Jim Leonard
Near the end of March, there was a stretch of several days when I was feeling pretty blue, and I was acting that way. Although I do get blue now and then, it was unusual for me to stay in a funk for several days. “Why are downcast, O my…
Daily Connector | Silent screaming into the void | Jeff Lookabaugh
In these latter-day, Degenerate times, Cherry-blossoms everywhere! -Kobayashi Issa In early January, I lost my voice. At first I thought it would be temporary; I’d go through a few days of forced silence and then back to normal. A month in it was worse, not better, and then it disappeared…