LOVE Archives - Ellen Morris Prewitt

Love in the Lowe’s

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on July 24, 2024. Posted in General, LOVE. 4 Comments on Love in the Lowe’s

I was sitting on the floor of the Lowe’s today waiting on the key cutter to cut new keys. A man was talking to the key cutter while he worked. I don’t know what they were talking about because they were talking in Spanish. The man, it turns out was the dad of a family who came walking down the aisle to join him. Walking, except for a...

You are Wonderful

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on July 6, 2024. Posted in General, LOVE. 14 Comments on You are Wonderful

I like mayo on my hotdog. I have one nearsighted eye and one farsighted eye. I can swim the length of a 25 yard pool in one breath. I am afraid of ocean liners and the car running out of gas. Snakes don’t scare me. I love my family. I hate single-use contact lens. I was blond as a child then strawberry blond then a boy...

Wild Poems

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on June 22, 2024. Posted in GOD, LOVE, Writing. 3 Comments on Wild Poems

My emotions rocklike wavesa victim of forces uncontrolled. My heart singsLord, it’s beautiful.How does that calm survive the chaos? Purple Martins fly,Ripe plums bend branches.Beautiful brick marcheswhere grass grows green.We will all be okay. A jigsaw of cloudsWhat looks forebodingcreates contrast, warning us,“We are alive.” We...

That Humming is You

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on April 24, 2024. Posted in GOD, LOVE. 7 Comments on That Humming is You

No one is getting out of this alive. The flow will continue after you, it never stops. Don’t dam it. Jump into the stream. Don’t struggle. Roll. Submerge. Stopper your ears and listen. That humming is you, your life energy. What you bring into the world. Once you are gone, that particular humming will stop. Love it. Marvel in it....

Ode to Mud

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on February 18, 2024. Posted in Featured, LOVE, Writing. 8 Comments on Ode to Mud

My first love was mud. In the backyard of the pink house in Denver on the corner of a street lined with other one-story tract houses, my little family lived. Mother didn’t plant, Daddy Joe didn’t garden. The bushes were scarce and scraggly, whatever the developer had set in the ground. Untended, like three-year-old me in the springtime yard in my...

What is a Gratitude Attitude?

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on November 23, 2023. Posted in Featured, General, LOVE. 2 Comments on What is a Gratitude Attitude?

“I’ve got a gratitude attitude,” the kids sang in their joyful voices this week on Grandparents Day. And the emails arriving in my inbox on this Thanksgiving Day encourage an attitude of gratitude. Some religious, some touting its emotional benefits. My friend who died of cancer back when I was on Facebook posted every day at least...

Veterans Day 2023

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on November 12, 2023. Posted in Featured, General, LOVE. 6 Comments on Veterans Day 2023

This Veterans Day 2023, I’m remembering our early days of living in New Orleans. I would often ride the City of New Orleans train from Memphis to the city. One trip, I was standing in the line at the canteen—trains have snack bars on their lower levels where you can buy drinks and chips. Shortly before, our armed services had lifted their “Don’t...

My Attachment to Things, So Embarrassing

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on August 10, 2023. Posted in General, LOVE. 10 Comments on My Attachment to Things, So Embarrassing

When Daddy Joe died—killed by a train in what the responding officer called as clean a t-bone as he’d ever seen—Mother said she stopped caring about things. Only people mattered. I always took this to mean that attachment to things was shallow. Yet. I love my new burnt sienna pillow cases in wrinkly linen. I love my 1950s TV trays I’m...

Death is a Comma

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on June 7, 2023. Posted in Featured, General, LOVE. 9 Comments on Death is a Comma

When you lose someone you love, it frightens you. Not just for the loss of them. Your grief opens up the possibility that you will lose everyone you love. But if everything is process, nothing is broken, and maybe nothing needs to be fixed. Rachel Naomi Remen We humans give tiers to love. Those that are more important, and even most important....

The Bishop Came to Our House

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on May 1, 2023. Posted in Featured, General, GOD, LOVE. 8 Comments on The Bishop Came to Our House

Yesterday, in church, the Bishop came to our house. She wore her gold hat and white robes. She carried a carved shepherd’s crook, because she is the shepherd of our souls here on earth. At her side stood a tiny woman called the Bishop’s chaplain, as if the Bishop gets to travel with her BFF spiritual friend always. The Bishop was...