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What Is Holy?
I used to pass an old stone church that houses an elementary school on my way to work. Every day I saw the children as they entered. Parents kissed their children goodbye. Teachers welcomed the children. A beautiful garden surrounded the school entra...
read moreHow Prayer Works
We prayed together as we had done thousands of times,rushing ablutions over the sink, laying our janamazes outtoward the window facing the elm which one summerheld an actual crow’s nest full of baby crows: fuzzy, black-beaked fruit, they were mirac...
read moreWild Geese
You do not have to be good.You do not have to walk on your kneesFor a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your bodylove what it loves.Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine. Meanwhile t...
read moreTurn Around
Where are you going my little one, little oneWhere are you going my baby my ownTurn around and you're twoTurn around and you're fourTurn around and you're a young girlGoing out of the door From Nanci Griffith's "Turn Around" "The days are long, bu...
read moreAbout Katie
Born in Louisville. Live in Atlanta. Curious by nature. Researcher by education. Writer by practice. Grateful heart by desire.
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