“When I moved back home to northwest Florida after being a cop and a cleric in Atlanta, I never would’ve imagined I’d become a prison chaplain. But God works in mysterious ways, and when I fell from grace in Atlanta,… — Michael Lister Copy Share Image
“You’ve been talking about me in therapy?”“In therapy, in my sleep, in AA, in chat rooms, to strangers,” I said. “Women like you are… — Michael Lister Copy Share Image
“What is truth?” I said. “Is it the shallow assurance that something literally took place, or is it about something far deeper, something that… — Michael Lister Copy Share Image
“As I walked down the extremely narrow hall of my not-so-mobile home, passing over the pale yellow linoleum curling up so that it no longer reached the thin blond paneling of either wall, I remembered the plush two-story brick home Susan and I had shared in North Atlanta. It was nice. Very nice. But this impoverished place and the fringe… — Michael Lister Copy Share
“When I moved back home to northwest Florida after being a cop and a cleric in Atlanta, I never would’ve imagined I’d become a… — Michael Lister Copy Share Image
“What else?”“I don’t know,” she said, frustration eating at the edge of her words. “Do you want me to say that I woke up a few mornings with my panties twisted and a funny feeling in my vagina? Maybe I did. I’m just not sure, but if I did, my panties get twisted up all the time when I sleep—… — Michael Lister Copy Share
“ventually Kathryn joined me by the lake with a blanket and picnic basket and entreated me to come away with her into the woods. Through her words and desire I could feel the pull of the divine and hear in her words the echo of the Song of Songs: “Arise, my love, my beautiful one, and come away with me.… — Michael Lister Copy Share
“Wildlife photographer, photojournalist, war correspondent, paparazzi, even portraitist, but life laughs at the plans we make, and the dreams and ambitions of youth quickly… — Michael Lister Copy Share Image
“All the talent in the world can’t make up for attitude,” he said. “But attitude go a long way in making up for talent.” — Michael Lister Copy Share Image
“It was the wound that caused this scar, and the blood it shed, that had saved my life, and had given me the opportunity… — Michael Lister Copy Share Image
“We seemed to be heading toward a revolution that would not only see a battle between the haves and have-nots, but between the fundamentalists… — Michael Lister Copy Share Image
“and the stories we tell ourselves to make sense of ourselves and the world are all-powerful.” — Michael Lister Copy Share Image
