The Clothes Pin
How much better it is
to carry wood to the fire
than to moan about your life.
How much better
to throw the garbage
onto the compost, or to pin the clean
sheet on the line,
With a gray-brown wooden clothes pin
Read my new memoir: Rosaries, Reading, Secrets: A Catholic Childhood in India (US) or UK.
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My book of essays: Wandering Between Two Worlds (US) or UK
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In which Imaginative Literature Stirs the Heart to Conversion (A Guest Post by Holly Ordway)
Grieve No More For All That’s Broken
“More Beautiful than the Honey Locust Tree Are the Words of the Lord” by Mary Oliver
In which I am Surprised by the Revelation of Divine Love
The Poet, the Albatross and the Christian
