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Sep 11, 2022Liked by Meg Conley

I was so scared of heaven as a kid too! Specifically of eternity—the unendingness of it all, the mindstretching incomprehensibility.

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I love everything about this. Those moments reading before bed, the things and ways that kids will say and think about things--the existential questions that we also think about, but never in ways so specific, so raw. This is a beautiful framework to think about the events of our weeks--thank you for writing it.

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Three things in response:

Donut Tuesday. I'm reminded that this coming Tuesday is the first Tuesday after the full moon, the Tuesday in which the prophets recently proclaimed it is okay to feast upon donuts from the best place in town (Rosauers grocery store). I appreciate the reminder.

Where you're at. For some reason I always associate you with Seattle. But then you write something – this time merely saying "on Colfax" – and I'm reminded you're in Denver. Isn't that weird?

Red Rocks. Last fall I had tickets to see the band Heilung there, but went instead to Minnesota for a Little Shell thing. I don't regret it, but I'd have loved to see them there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64CACoHNBEI

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Sep 12, 2022Liked by Meg Conley

Lovely, Meg 💗

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Sep 12, 2022Liked by Meg Conley

The humanity in the unhoused. Thank you for putting it to some beautiful poignant words. I live in a city with many unhoused and have lived in major cities in other countries which do not have the unhoused in the way that we do. I pray that in the future we will look back with horror on this time when we denied so many people the basic right to shelter. As a mother I don't know what I am teaching my children when we pass these people on the street. We often give money, sometime we don't. Some of them have lived in the neighborhood longer than we have, for years. Anyways, no real conclusions or solutions here, so I'm just going to leave this comment here.

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Meg, that made me sob at my desk.

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