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Devotional

A Sensate Independence Day

The senses keep their own record of a day — smoke, salt air, the hush after the last shell breaks open above the water.

Watercolor of a boardwalk through marsh grasses at sunrise
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Poetry

Cardinals in the Snow

Watching the bird feeders on a snowy day was the inspiration for this poem. “Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow.” — Isaiah 1:18

Watercolor of two cardinals on a snowy branch beside a feeder
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Allegory

Crabbing on Bells Creek

An allegorical devotion — the first allegory I have written, set in my new home along the Tidewater creeks.

Watercolor of a crab pot lifted from a tidal creek beside a kayak
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Devotional

Hello World!

Two blue crabs, a kayak, and a move across the country — the first entry in a slow record of grace.

Watercolor of a blue crab in shallow water
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