Trevor Sides https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html The Meadowlark Is the Only Bird Psalm 1 (spring edition) Our 2024 tilt-a-whirl adventure in foster care Taylor Swift pops up a foul ball with ‘The Tortured Poets Department’ Billie Eilish, “What Was I Made For?” and the oppressiveness of Too Much Internet My review of ‘RUSHMERE’ by Mumford & Sons The Leaves Are Not Dying “Trial Gardens”: a poem This Easter Eve, consider your adoption (with a little help from dc Talk) A liturgy for when a foster child returns home Autumnal wanderings Rudyard Kipling was emo, and other thoughts from life’s middle passage Charlie’s kids HALT: A prayer for when you feel hungry, angry, lonely, or tired Contact Saying “No” and “Yes” on Ash Wednesday How we’ve wrestled with fertility and infertility at Christmastime How The Oh Hellos transcended banjos and bow ties with ‘Through the Deep, Dark Valley’ ‘The Lord of the Rings’: The return of the blog The midnight realities of adoption Verbalizing the interpersonal in an impersonal world The quiet places: ‘A Quiet Place’ knows you’re afraid of parenting When Frodo adopted Gollum Metallica gets biblical on ’72 Seasons’ My son got his heart broken by the Dallas Cowboys (and it won’t be the last time) To Mary Oliver The cat who comforted Time is God’s experience of himself, and other thoughts about the worst months of the year We are trying to become foster parents for our girls’ half-brother About Rise, heart: Two poems for the first week of Easter How to help Ukrainian refugees in Romania Swinging from a ponderosa: On internal senses and existential root balls Granddad and the playhouse Through the dark, deep (and crazy) woods of foster care Establish the work of our hands: Psalm 90, Mary Oliver and how to pay attention Autumn and everything after We are all orphans, or why this website exists A prayer before a court hearing You are what you hum: Winnie the Pooh, Piglet and the power of words Goodbye for good: A liturgy for moving away from a beloved home