Trusting His Heart

Hey. The last couple months have been ridiculous. Had you noticed? I really wished I'd be able to look back on these weeks of unemployment and confinement as a time of great cultural, educational, and spiritual growth. I signed up for classes, bought art supplies, made a to-do list of backordered projects, knowing that surely…

Quarantine, Day 62 – War.

I think I've cracked. They haunt me around corners, lurking in my peripheral vision while I'm working on a project, stalking silently while they wait for me to turn my gaze to face them straight on. Their faces are grotesque, misshapen and stretched by their nasty habit. I lunge toward them in a show of…

Roots

I sigh after each phone call; each sigh lasting longer and expelling more air -- deflating me, shrinking me, emptying me. I sink lower into the chair, staring vehemently at the blinking cursor on the Discharge Summary template in a patient's medical record. I've created a shortcut phrase in the documentation system as "COVIDCANCELLATION" to…