Speaking about Forgiveness
Each month the North Kingston Free library partners with the Episcopal church in Wickford to co-sponsor a poetry series. Poetry is used loosely because sometimes other genre writers are featured. The series started when Father Spencer Reece, a poet, was hired as rector in 2023. We discovered it a year ago when Pádraig Ó Tuama of Poetry Unbound was a guest speaker. Every time, I walk away feeling (and Reed does too) that something deep inside was stirred during the session. Last night was no exception.
Play it again
Twenty years ago, I was sitting on the concrete stairs outside the Shoulder to Shoulder apartments in Santa Lucia, Honduras, when I heard the announcer on a colleague’s short wave radio say that US troops were moving into Afghanistan. My compatriots (physicians, nurses, residents and medical students) on the medical mission out of the University of Cincinnati…