I'd have sunk in the car if Marcus Jetty hadn't been doing a little late-season beachcombing. Marcus runs Greenstone Salvage and Tinker, a famous local eyesore of bike frames, tube amps, hula poppers,...
Hope is like yeast, you know, rising under warmth.
Once torched by truth, a little thing like faith is easy.
What makes a Samaritan good is the possibility of the lunge.
The evidence of my life lay before me, and I was unconvinced.
A person never knows what is next -- I don't, anyway. The surface of everything is thinner than we know. A person can fall right through, without any warning at all.
We beat the drum slowly and played the fife lowly,and bitterly wept as we bore him along.For we all loved our comrade so brave, young and handsome, we all loved our comrade although he'd done wrong.Th...
I felt laden. Air itself has weight and mass, and Kansas had the most air of anywhere I'd ever been.
Before reaching Grassy Butte, though, Dad spied a farmhouse with two pumps in the drive and a red-and-white sign out front saying DALE'S OIL COMPANY. Another sign said CLOSED, but a light was on in th...
Was working the cold up
Oh, his speed was no shock—speed was never Alec’s problem. It was his precision that astonished. Because listen: How many pitchers in any league have a fastball with its own nickname? And what kind of...
I remember it as October days are always remembered, cloudless, maple-flavored, the air gold and so clean it quivers.
For his life seemed a curving line, capricious, moment by moment inviting grace.
Dudgeon
You can embark on new and steeper versions of your old sin, you know, and cry tears doing it that are genuine as any.
What mortal creations are language and memory!
Sleep that day was a warm pool into which I dove and stayed, sporadically lifting my head to sense the world.
How could we not believe the Lord would guide us? How could we not have faith? For the foundation had been laid in prayer and sorrow. Since that fearful night, Dad has responded with the almost imposs...
Quixotically.
Waltzer was stirred by the boy’s assurance under stress. Waltzer believed in invented destiny and invented some then and there.