[+]Aaroneous Monk[+]

Tonight I will be attending the Orthodox service of Pascha which is known as "Easter" in the Western church.  It is a service ...

As time passes and memories fade only the heart  will forever keep what is most precious in this short life. ***

Carpenter bees roam  the dandelions and  purple-flowered weeds  of my backyard, startled  from their perch by  the wheels o...

I'm one of the parents who tends to come to my son's baseball practices and games to help out where I can without having to car...

Night has fallen and the darkness draws close looking for entrance into our home through crack or crevice. The kids are in bed and I...

In February of '91 I was flown down to Ft. Benning, Georgia to start Basic Training at twenty two years of age after talking to a recru...

The ego makes its demands and empties the soul of its substance like a carnivorous T-rex whose flesh has long le...

St. Hoosierus, play at the Hall for us winners... Overshadow us with your courtly might, drive the paint and spring into fli...

An empty space, long as a mile, deep as an ocean, that echoes with the sounds of wants that are mistaken for needs, end- lessly mu...

I love how music evokes images and emotions in the mind and can even tell stories without words.  I've been listening to some Pink ...

Like a desert oasis for the busy bedouin is a hug in the midst of life's stressors. Like a drink of water for the wilderness explo...

He was a visionary, and by that I mean he wore bifocal glasses, but not just any glasses, rimless ones that were suspended be- fore...

This is how I will always remember them, Anya as the baby, Elias as the little boy, and Greta full of doggy exuberance. They are not ...

Today I will not write.  Instead, I will look through my photos and dream up ways of manipulating them using some apps and my imagination.  ...

It was a warm and breezy night outside of my army base in South Korea.  I had just finished teaching an English class in the small to...

I am reading Tim O'brien's "The Things They Carried" and just learned that he was 43 years old when he began writing...

Inspired by Elias's story The Clock Man They had met before, Clock Man and the Infinity Witch, several times, in fact. The ...

I stood in the monastery courtyard on the outskirts of Mosul and watched the blackbirds fly silently over my head, the war quickly for...

It felt like his luck was running out, tether let out inch by inch, year by year, anchored in the bedrock of the remote past when hi...

Some time in the mid-seventies I had a GI Joe doll that I loved like the little brother I'd never had.  And by little, I mean ten i...