To Walk with Saints and Scholars

March 17, 2026

“The Past Echoes”

Photo by LKV Walsh

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Finnegan, Begin Again

If today when I tell that story

         (that one I’ve told a hundred times),

if today the words come out just a bit differently…

         If the “irresponsible” me is perhaps the “ignorant” me,

         If the shame has somehow shifted to new knowing,

         If the catch in my throat when I say “and then…”

         mends itself into an earlier ending (or maybe just a sigh),

then I will know that I am healing. 

I will know my heart is just about ready to be burst open again.

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