Category Archives: Poems & Photographs

A Church Burns

Posted on April 4, 2016 by trillium24

We gather before the burned-out building our aged container of our times together in prayer, sermon, song both in joy and in sorrow.   We have gathered here for years, over generations, taught our children, shared hot-cross buns, coffee, tea, … Continue reading →

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Cathédrale de Notre Dame

Posted on March 28, 2016 by trillium24

Ah, Cathédrale de Notre Dame at dawn, in fog, sepulcher white, barely formed, the façade emerges from the mist each statue takes his place above the arches the flying buttresses hold high the nave the solidity of the wooden doors. … Continue reading →

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Return Flight

Posted on March 26, 2016 by trillium24

Some people just wait you know, just wait until the door is closing to run up and say, “Wait for me I’m boarding, too!” on that plane to somewhere.   Sitting in the metal tube feeling scared 30,000 feet in … Continue reading →

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L’imagination pouvoir.

Posted on March 26, 2016 by trillium24

“No to Vietnam! No to tradition!” In 1968, students barricade Place Maubert tearing up the cobblestones stoning police that march shoulder to shoulder toward them. The students may forget the year 1588, the first revolt and barricades of Paris but … Continue reading →

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Souvenir de Paris

Posted on March 25, 2016 by trillium24

In this café off Rue Severin, we will meet someday again in this smoke-filled room of laughter, and toast, Salute! as the cameras flash their language of truth and lies and the secrets we keep from each other and from … Continue reading →

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Francine in Paris – Day 14

Posted on March 23, 2016 by trillium24

Can 3.73 million people be wrong?  That’s how many folks visited the Centre Georges Pompidou in 2013.  The art is great!  The building is UGLY.  This gigantic building made of a steel superstructure with reinforced concrete in a “post modern, … Continue reading →

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Francine in Paris – Day 13

Posted on March 22, 2016 by trillium24

“You can tell it’s Mattel, it’s swell! Sound familiar? Yes, that is the motto of the world’s largest toy company.  Musee des Arts Decoratifs is hosting a retrospective of Barbie who made her debut in March, 1959.  My younger sister … Continue reading →

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Francine in Paris – Day 12+

Posted on March 21, 2016 by trillium24

“There couldn’t be a more splendid world, and here I am existing in it.” —      Mary Oliver from her poem, “I’m feeling fabulous, possibly too much so but I love it.” Today in the Latin Quarter, we visited … Continue reading →

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Francine in Paris – Day 12

Posted on March 21, 2016 by trillium24

“I never travel without my diary.  One should always have something sensational to read in the train.”  Oscar Wilde   (On the bags from Shakespeare and Company) Shakespeare and Co. Deanna and I went to this legendary English-language bookstore on a … Continue reading →

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Francine in Paris -Day 11++

Posted on March 20, 2016 by trillium24

Bus #69. After the Palm Sunday service, we started to look for Bus #69 which is the scenic route to Pere Lechaise, the 30 acre cemetery with some quick but mostly dead folks.  The quick ones were at Jim Morrison’s tomb … Continue reading →

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