Prayers in Winter

(12/17/22) [“And all flesh shall see it together” (from Handel’s “And the Glory of the Lord,” Messiah [Is 40:5]).] O Lover, Having finally arrived in Christmastide, I acknowledge yet again how profoundly paradoxical is...

(12/11/22) O Lover, Within forty-eight hours last week I had my first and second encounters with the Japanese art of kintsugi: the repair of damaged pottery via the application of gold lacquer to the...