by Marta Wheeler | Apr 7, 2021 | Marta Blog
While the stars still shone in the heavens, before the first crack of dawn, birds could be heard singing in the cemetery chirping their gratitude for another day. Small animals scurried about looking for breakfast in the shrubs of the garden. Doing what they were...
by Marta Wheeler | Mar 30, 2021 | Marta Blog
Spotting the bent over woman dressed in layers of coats so thick he finds it hard to tell where she begins and the protective layers end. Without thinking he takes the last three dollars from his wallet and places them in her weathered hands. She pauses from...
by Marta Wheeler | Mar 23, 2021 | Marta Blog
In between the times that Jesus was healing the wounded, tending the sick, and giving sight to the blind… In between the times that Jesus was turning water into wine wandering the wilderness and multiplying loaves and fishes… It’s nice to think there may have...
by Marta Wheeler | Mar 17, 2021 | Marta Blog
Once this week of dove grey skies drizzling cold rain that softens the earth and replenishes the soil disperses, the tulips and daffodils will find a way to paint the landscape with loveliness again this year. We have a few more days to observe the bare branches as...
by Marta Wheeler | Mar 10, 2021 | Marta Blog
After walking miles of paved neighborhood streets where autumn leaves are bagged up unhealthy trees are removed and hauled away and bark adheres to trunks it was with a jolt that I enter the woods down by the river, where trees fold in half upon one another and...
