Beside Quiet Waters

Beside Quiet Waters

The summer is starting to peak in Texas, consuming all things green and flowering. Day after day, the sun stabs the still air with its fiery glare, pre-heating the morning with the wicked promise of an afternoon inferno that scorches everything within reach. No shade-giving clouds. No tender breezes. No wet raindrops to cool the parched earth…

The Still, Small Voice

The Still, Small Voice

Saturday began as a perfect day…the balmy weather almost whispering, it’s spring! Blue skies framed the background of the bright lemon sun, toasty-warm. I shed my winter coat in exchange for the day’s warmth, so liberating after days upon days of knife-cutting cold. Uptown, Dallas. City sidewalks teeming with sweater-clad people of every age. Moms…