breadcrumbs

lacey floating manna crumbs
on the gentian petal lake
swirl about three lily pads
with the current

crusts fall from benevolent palms
from eager baby hands
shook from tight-clasped grocery sacks
onto glossy waves

meager offerings toss where they will
close by the carrot webbed feet
under quills of snow down white
to goslings' beaks

ten random things one might do at faithbuilders

Ten Random Things You Might (or Might Not) Do at Faithbuilders Institute:


1. You might have dinner discussions ranging from the humorous effects
of birth order, to the solid components of Anabaptism, to what water
chestnuts really look like.


2. You might enjoy a hike on the Erie Wildlife Refuge trails...posing for pictures, finding tree leaves, straddling bridges (some among us), and running through raindrops.

3. You might have the fun of telling your small group that the

best object you could find to personify yourself on short notice
was a swiveling fan...

4. You might enjoy large cookies

and milk with dormies.

5. You might (would) fall asleep over blurry words...and more than once.

6. You might enjoy scribbling away a Saturday

at a coffeehouse, with a fellow member of the

Creative Writing class.

7. You might enjoy the music--whether it is Gina's piano practice or Saturday evening singing in the gym (bring along your Mennonite Hymnal, please).

8. You might spend a wonderful hour sitting on a tombstone,

journal in hand.

9. You might weed corn rows and hill potatoes with the whole FB gang. (But be warned, if you're weeding corn, you will find it much more floppish ).


10. You might write a story about camels and a certain endearing camel boy, who has big hands and a tender heart.

Or you might do none of the above! But the ten you did do, would be equally worth your while.