Posts Tagged ‘Good Friday’
Good Friday in Brooklyn
April 19, 2019
We hear it before we see it. Sometimes, it’s the somber snap of the funereal snare. Sometimes, it’s the ladies’ choral recitations of the rosary, scratching through a tinny speaker. Then there they are, processing past our apartment building. It is Good Friday, the day of Christian upheaval and ruined expectations, and in a moment,…
Read MorePoetry Friday: “Lord of the hopeless also dear”
April 19, 2019
Lord of the hopeless also dear Hat-Soak Pole-in-the-Canal and Red-Tie Father Son And Holy Ghost not in that order break The rottenness of those who torture one Of Thy least wrath-deserving exiles me Not wholly undeserving no but some And isn’t it the some that counts with Thee O Gondola also as the trees pass…
Read MoreHoly Week: Love’s Paradox
April 15, 2019
White Crucifixion by Marc Chagall It helps to know where you’re going. Few of us ever do. My wife and I had taken the train to Würzburg, Germany, only to learn most of the tourist sites were closed for the day. We decided to make the best of it, taking in what gardens and historic buildings remained open, and…
Read MoreGetting Lost on Good Friday
April 16, 2018
My Good Friday plans got hijacked by 11:00 a.m. I’d forgotten the big “marshmallow drop” (don’t ask), and suddenly we were rushing around the house finding shoes and coats and plastic bags so we could join several hundreds of our fellow Evanstonians at the park.While there, we ran into friends, who invited us…
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