First published in May, 2012
One twilight last summer, a hungry black bear came into our yard at Dayspringfarm. She has been comin’ round the mountain now for several years. Our bear loves sunflower seeds. Around our bird feeders she dances like a 100-pound goldfinch. She has smashed beyond use several of our hospitality locations for God’s birds. Dick Rustay [...]
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Prologue Hello, I am TroyDavis. You killed me on September 21, 2011. You wanted to kill me at 7 p.m., but it was 11:08 before your Georgia venom took me down. Now I walk your streets with the poor and homeless and haunt your gated “communities” while you drink too much wine and gorge yourselves [...]
First published in March, 2012
Yesterday, Rev. Murphy Davis and I were in Milledgeville, Georgia, on our monthly prison trip. We transport families, lovers and friends to visit those locked away. Through the center of the city, the old Confederate capital of slaveholding Georgia, marched a band of deformed white people. They were celebrating the birthday of one of their [...]
First published in March, 2012
By Eduard Loring We have heard disappointing squeaking from the beds in the White House. We have learned, in “all the news that’s fit to print” and in salacious presentations, about beds bouncing and moans moaning in hotels and motels along the political campaign trail. A recent film, “The Ides of March,” chronicles the ride [...]
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We live in a time of Time – scarcity Busy – abundance Time starved Busy bloated We live in the time Of Wal-Mart Stomp the one in front of you Jab the one before you in the back Cry of the Prisoner Dear Dad, I wish you and my mom a Merry Christmas, and [...]
First published in September, 2011
Tony Lee Green, 102340, is our adopted son in prison. Below is a Cry from prison: June 17th 2011 My “M”[Murphy] and I have more than just mom and son in common; we are both struggling for a few more years of life on God’s earth and with our loved ones…. …it’s been so hot! [...]
First published in August, 2011
Means and Ends When Yahweh-Elohim decided to free the Hebrews way down in Egyptland, she used only the forces of nature and the devastation of death (fl ies and toads, etc., but no drones). In the usa today we are dying by disease and workaholism. Many of our diseases are caused by American culture, based [...]
First published in June, 2011
Hospitality, vol 30, no 5 Editor’s note: This “Final Call” will be followed next month by a dose of realism: “The Institutionalization of the Homeless.” Please allow me to offer a word of introduction using a poem by Russian poet Anna Akhmatova: It is not with the lyre of someone in love [...]
