Truths

Truth: In these last few years of (sort of) voluntary reduced means, one spending pleasure that remains is the grocery store. There is no concern at the grocery store for if one should be spending money, one must buy food, mustn’t one? A child of the ’80s, the grocery store is also the only place […]

Flags

He was telling me he forgot the name of the town that is just south of Garnett. I wonder if he is a Trump supporter, I thought. “I’m sure I don’t know it, anyway,” I said. “I hardly know anyplace in Kansas, except along the way to Colorado. My great-grandparents’ farm was near Lancaster, though, […]

Maundy Thursday, Notre Dame

This is the first Maundy Thursday in maybe 800 years without mass. Notre Dame is empty but for the ashes of her considerable hat, and the waterlog of the saving spray. There must be people who always have the triduum at Notre Dame, and this time, for the first year, they will hear the Passover […]

Here and There

Sunday morning. Brooklyn, I descend two stories of stairs, and our stained and dinged pressed-in patterns on the plaster. Places there were holes, there is now a smooth smear instead of the pattern. I walk the walk to the subway, the walk to the station that is so many lengths: so long when you are […]