Leslie Ihde
Forest Home Church During the Pandemic
Somehow, week after week, she pulls it off: sermons with just the right balance of inspiration, kindness, and depth.
She works systematically choosing a theme, and then, gathering quotes to be sewn together like some patchwork quilt; an Appalachian Spring on happiness, or faith, or gratitude, or forgiveness. A poem, words from Aristotle and Viktor Frankl blend with biblical phrases to serve as the bones. Rebecca’s own slightly sad warmth is the flesh and blood of the house she builds. Her soft, grandmotherly face beams gently on each individual in turn. “All Welcome,” the sign says.
her right eye smiles her left narrow with some pain the Reverend gazes on her congregation video zoomed in small boxes ~ a tic tac toe of hungry lives
About the Author
Leslie Ihde fell in love with Basho in childhood, and with tanka and tanka prose in 2011. She works as a psychotherapist in Ithaca, New York, and uses tanka writing as a practice with her clients.
very nice!