En castellano, luego inglés…que estén bien, queridos amigos.en paz… Adviento III, 2009 El humo del inciensoque te llevo como ofrendahuele de las especiascomunes y cotidianasque han dado sabor a mis pasos recientes: la amistad, el pan;el polvo, la orilla;la esperanza y la pobreza;el sol que impregnamis sábanas limpias y secas. c. MperiodPress Advent III, 2009…
Author: Kimberly M. King
I am a Religious of the Sacred Heart (RSCJ) living in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. I am the director of Barat Spirituality Centre, www.baratspirituality.org, a writer, a juggler, a quick wit, a walker. I enjoy reading all sorts of fiction and non-fiction and regularly write both essays and poetry. Other interests and abilities include Spanish/English written translation and simultaneous interpretation, cooking, and time spent thinking and observing.
Quiero que vengas
From the Virtual Heart of RevGals…It´s Friday Five! Please share five ways that God has come to you (your family or friends, your church or workplace, our world) in the past year, that God is coming to you right now, and/or that you are longing and looking for God to come. Before I begin, I…
Una respuesta/A response
Again, first in Spanish, then in English.Otra vez, primero en castellano, después en inglés. Como he tenido unos que me han preguntado después del poema Adviento II–¿Lindo, pero no te crees que la llegada es ahorita y siempre ahorita? quiero tomar un momento y explicar un poco mi motívo… Sí, creo que la llegada es…
Advent II, 2009
Primero en castellano, después en inglés. Así fue el proceso de escribirlo, y por eso, el proceso de ponerlos aquí también. First in Spanish, then in English. Such was the process of writing them and so thus is the process for putting them here too. Adviento II, 2009 Soy de pocas palabrasdurante estos días de…
Won´ts and Wills
From RevGals… List Five things you won’t be doing to prepare for Christmas. Simple! 1. The tin soldiers will remain unpolished2. The goose is on a diet, but I promise to still put a peso in the old man´s hat.3. The one horse open sleigh ride is just going to have to wait. Sand in…
Matisse, my camera, and Inner Ah!
I have never been much for taking photographs. Once I read an article by Alice Walker, author, about the fixed nature of pictures versus the roominess of the written word. It was fascinating and helped me understand why I preferred to write in the place about being in the place rather than take what I…
Advent I, 2009
Advent I, 2009 Will it belike the potent natural urgeof moon and gravityto loose the seaand let her praise? Will it belike the smooth and traveling warmthin my hands, my fingers,when I hold a stonethat has rested with the sun? Will it belike light and silence-the fullness of color,the fullness of sound,like the awe of…
Talkin´ Turkey Friday Five
The Cure Lying around all daywith some strange new deep blueweekend funk, I’m not really asleepwhen my sister callsto say she’s just hung upfrom talking with Aunt Berthawho is 89 and ill but managingto take care of Uncle Frankwho is completely bed ridden.Aunt Bert saysit’s snowing there in Arkansas,on Catfish Lane, and she hasn’t beenable…
In the beginning…
The theme of prayer the other night was the question Jesus put to the blind man—What would you have me do for you? The answer was easy for him—I want to see. And so he did, by his faith. It was an interesting thing to think in what my answer would be—or better, what my…
La Iglesia del Mar– The Church of the Sea
Yesterday morning I went to the iglesia del mar-The Church of the Sea. I sat on the beach and prayed my own version of the rosary and was accompanied by flocks of pelicans cruising in synch. I also learned how to tell which line on the water will become a wave. Before I guessed, but…
Consider the Lilies 