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May 2005
Unlikely Friendships
Sunday, May 29, 2005
“Why is it, when a man wants to be free, he’s just being a man. But when a women wants to live life from the position of the birds, the first thing folks say, is that she’s crazy.”
—Christine Lincoln, “Like Dove Wings.”
Difficult relationships and unlikely friendships.
Altered Lives
Sunday, May 22, 2005
"She liked people in love. They were slow-witted, and cheerful. They never asked her again, how long she planned to stay."
—Elizabeth McCracken, "Here’s Your Hat, What's Your Hurry?"
An eccentric relative alters lives.
Decisions....
Sunday, May 15, 2005
"How peaceful perfect faith is. It must be easier to sacrifice your son if you believe in perfect causes."
—Galina Vromen, “Sarah’s Story.”
Decisions, decisions. An uncertain college student, and the Biblical Sarah, make life altering choices in these two tales.
Small Symbols
Sunday, May 08, 2005
"The smell of wood polish and moth balls was stronger than he remembered. Cold, preserving moonlight fell through the windows and made his room seem like a diorama, each artifact in its place."
—Bernard Cooper, "Bit-o-Honey."
Small symbols convey large feelings in two stories about distant parents.
Rights And Wrongs
Sunday, May 01, 2005
"’When you come first in someone’s heart, she said,’when you feel the magnitude of another person’s love for you…you become a different person.’"
--Mary Yukari Waters, “The Way Love Works”
Reversals of fortune, as one man rights a cultural wrong, and a woman finds what she has lost.
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