by Andi | May 14, 2015 | Andi's Book, Book Recommendations, Slavery, Written and Wrought
Does your love make any difference in a graveyard? – from Psalm 88 I let out one of those soul-emptying sighs when I read this line in the dawn light today. Of course, the Psalmist is implying that God’s love does not make a difference when we are dead,... by Andi | May 5, 2015 | Andi's Book, Slavery, Written and Wrought
This afternoon, I am tucking myself into the underground irony of sunlight in the Small Special Collections Library at the University of Virginia. This endeavor – this research about Brackett’s Farm in Louisa County, Virginia – fits in that space,... by Andi | May 1, 2015 | God's Whisper, Slavery, Written and Wrought
Many poets are not poets for the same reasons many religious [people] are not saints: they never succeed in being themselves. They never get around to being the particular poet or the particular monk they are intended to be by God. They never become the [person] or...