Tender Shoots

I told myself that it was time to give out… to stop fattening myself up. I told myself that all the words I had consumed was beginning to crowd out everything else… that I had to expand my borders. I told God I wasn’t going to rely on feelings – just push myself to do … More Tender Shoots

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“Will you cover me?” The words had flashed like lightning across the bleak horizon of my mind. “Will I ‘cover you’? What do you mean?” I had stammered. A wild light was in his eyes when he turned toward me and urgently petitioned me to keep an arrow on the string as he began his … More Back-Up