We weren’t quite strangers in a strange land, but we were united by a faith that was somehow both strong and casual.

How many of you can say you have touched the shoes of God who walked the earth?

You know, don’t you, that nature
holds you close and finds no
fault with you?

in their games children invent laws
they keep usefully for joy or break
joyfully for use—

It is difficult being the daughter of a very beautiful mother. Even a mother who drank frequently, with enthusiasm, and beginning at two in the afternoon on bad days.

I learned to ski on the filthy Mississippi

What comes at the very end, he said, is the adorable.

Am I not the emblem of all that was or will be

Again and again, Singletary displaces the viewer by transforming traditional crafts and folkways into new, light-bearing idioms.

Holding something from outer space in your hand and praying with it heightens the awareness of God’s creation beyond your immediate surroundings.