the collected manuscripts of
granpawayne

Fieldstones

Fieldstones float up from within the earth. Each spring new stones break the surface. Where the fields are being farmed they are hauled to the edge of the field to be added to the walls that grow around the fields. Each stone has floated to the surface in the same way.

Let me imagine a different crop of stones. Stones that are more like soap bubbles. When they break the surface they continue to float upwards into the air. Then they pop, releasing a chunk of unconscious meaning into my conscious mind for contemplation and enlightenment.
 

Another Garden

Brother Marcel and Sister Teresa meet during a conference. An Anglo-Roman Retreat on the Renewal of the Religious Life.
Many young monks and nuns were abandoning the religious life and their superiors were trying to find out why and how to stem the tide.
Brother Marcel and Sister Teresa encounter each other in the garden.
 

Tyler Y2K

A set of poems written when I went to stay with my Grandson, Tyler, while Y2K happened or didn't happen. [52k]
 

Sketches for a Manuscript

Wayne Paquette at fifty two, has edited the fragments of his own life from thirty years earlier. Fragments in which we see a much younger Wayne trying to make sense of life.
 

A Book of Suburban Blues

Blues prose about Religion, Politics, and Relationships.
A transcendental idealist mourning the death of god.
A suburban socialist singing the "I hate the capitalists," blues.
A post modern husband wrestling with the devils of middle age.

 

Learn 'em how to learn.

Personal reflections on teaching and learning after twenty five years as a teacher/learner. We are "over teaching" and "under learning" our youth. So busy about psychometrics and cost benefit analysis that we get in the way of our students.
 

Pato

A sad, sad, story about a boy and his dog.
Depressive melancholy from incomplete grieving.
 

Does God Exist?

A personal response to the energies contained in the question. An attempt to make sense of this immense human puzzle. From a person who devoted five years of his life to the "Search for God" within the confines of a monastery. Only to feel "called" to go beyond the monastery, beyond the idols of religion.
 

The Priestess en El Barrio

As a young monk, a very small incident radicalizes my theology.
 

Loneliness

A book of short blues poems. (with index)
 

Loneliness

The same poems but with the index as a separate frame.
 

A portrait of Jesus.

"Lord, when was it that we saw you hungry, or thirsty, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not take care of you?" Mt. 25; 44
Reflections on, and meanings in, a wood sculpture by a pious monk.
 

A Fool's Path to Wisdom

The fool says in his heart, "There is no God." Ps 14;1
Journals covering the twenty years of his life from thirty to fifty.
(It comes in 20 parts.)
 

"The unexamined life is not worth living."

What did Socrates mean when he spoke these words before the Athenian court?