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How Do We Enjoy the Daily Feast
2025-11-16 11:00 UTC by Corey

Why does the bounty in front of me feel heavy?
Why do I taste gratitude and guilt with every bite?

Because when I look toward Palestine,
I see a world split in two—
those who have a phone and therefore a voice,
and those who wait in silence,
waiting for borders to open,
waiting for mercy to leak through the cracks.

Those...

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Autumn on the Table
2025-11-15 11:00 UTC by Corey

The hands of harvest-

The afternoon settled around the table piece by piece, without asking for attention. Its small treasures gathered from a slow wandering—peach warm to the touch, a butterfly pausing before fluttering onward, grapes holding their dreams of wine. Wheat shafts golden nearby, reminding me how the season gives even as it lets...

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What Does a French Chicken Pen Look Like?
2025-11-14 21:11 UTC by Corey

On my daughter’s property there are a few old sheds, and they’ve decided to convert one of them into a chicken pen.


From the photo, you can see it needs quite a bit of work. Gabriel took on the task of clearing it out while Olivia supervised. They hope to be ready for four chickens—one egg for each of them.

Olivia wanted baby...

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Homesickness
2025-11-13 11:00 UTC by Corey

When you live far from where you began, the heart stretches, learns new rhythms, rarely stops reaching across oceans and time zones. There’s always someone missing from the room, always a voice you wish you could hear…

My daughter and her children were in the States, visiting my mother. She’s ninety now. When they said goodbye, my...

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Because Somewhere
2025-11-12 11:00 UTC by Corey

11 November
2025-11-11 11:00 UTC by Corey

They left their youth for the hope of something they didn’t understand but believed 

Their names are carved in stone,

-their bodies and blood fed our fields.

The wind carries the memories farther on.

Children from the town walk towards the memorial, just as others once did-

not knowing what lies ahead.

We read the names of long...

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