by SGIUMC | Mar 1, 2019 | Prayers from the Island
I received a letter from an old friend today. Her health is not good, and I worry about her future. I don’t want things to change! Living on an island I have grown accustomed to change, difficult as that may be. The beach itself varies from day...
by SGIUMC | Jan 8, 2019 | Prayers from the Island
This week’s rough wind and waves have torn piles of sea grapes and left them strewn on the shore. I picked my way along their drying heaps thinking of how unattractively they litter the beach. Then I noticed shore birds pecking through the sea grapes, finding...
by SGIUMC | Feb 8, 2018 | Prayers from the Island
Today, early in the morning, I approached an unfamiliar object on the beach, just above the water line. Its label warned that it was dangerous, phosphorous-filled, and should not be touched. The finder was asked to notify the police or military. The discovery saddened...
by SGIUMC | Nov 30, 2017 | Prayers from the Island
The days grow shorter and shorter. At supper’s end we turn on the lights, circles of brightness in the house. The decks are dark now, empty of flowerpots. Only the cacti receive illumination, light pooling outside the window. From the deck...
by SGIUMC | Sep 6, 2017 | Prayers from the Island
The island is awash in wild flowers now, splashes of color line the road, displaying their palette even in the piney woods on the bay. No one plants these seeds, no one tends them; they must endure drought and cold, surviving intense heat and salt spray, super-heated...
by SGIUMC | Aug 9, 2017 | Prayers from the Island
A neighbor stopped by this morning with the sad news that there was a drowning yesterday on the island. High winds and rip tides made the gulf water dangerous. Apparently one person was in trouble, and another went out to assist but he was pulled into the waves and...
