Art
Ann's Fountain: Poem written at Laity Lodge, 2011
Artist’s Retreat, 2011. Ian Cron asked us to go experience water and come back in about twenty minutes. This happened. It’s taken me six years to share it. ANN’S FOUNTAIN...
Poems
FIRE: a poem by Judy Sorum Brown and a book page of mine
A couple of years ago I took a page in a book called Creativity by Matthew Fox and made a “found word” poem. Story is fire, heat, warm, food. Creativity...
Learning From Judson
What I Know
There is a sense in which everything important that I know, I know because of Lew and Judson: Because of my sons I know pain and joy I know the...
Art
Poem: Laity Lodge Artist Retreat 2011
MUSIC, ART and ARCHITECTURE… the Frio River I close my eyes and listen: From my right nearby lapping on a metal canoe From my left a different rhythm on a...
Poems
The Worst Loss
THE WORST LOSS – the death of a child They tell me I have experienced The Worst Loss. Why do I recoil? No one wants to be The Worst: The...
Poems
The Twenty-Third Psalm: A personal version - Chaplain
The Lord is my chaplain. I shall not lack comfort. He makes me rest in the palm of his hand. He leads me to quiet bedsides and to noisy nursing...
Learning From Judson
The Given Companion
The Given Companion “How do you expect to get to the end of your own journey if you take the road to another man’s city?” Thomas Merton said. I imagine...
Learning From Lew
Whole
I said he was not whole But I wonder what I meant. He cannot walk or talk or perform any life skill unassisted, But he can giggle and cry and...
Learning From Lew
His Gifts
I have a first-born son Who is severely disabled But he brings great gifts to me. He brings to my life Sweetness. He looks at me. He fully accepts me...