For months I did my own personal study on tears, because I was crying everyday for various reasons, mostly for other people. Not really knowing what would come of it, I began journaling my experience and realized that my tears for others and tears for my family were a form of contemplative prayer for them. … Continue reading Tears Today
Author: Brianne Turczynski
I'm the host and creator of the podcast, Loving the Imperfect. I'm a freelance writer and historical researcher in Detroit. I hold a master’s degree in education from Oakland University with a concentration in English and history. My fiction and poetry have appeared in Halcyone Magazine, The 3288 Review, The Write Launch, and the Ketchup Press. My nonfiction has been featured in Valley Living Magazine, Michigan Out of Doors Magazine, and Planet Detroit News. I have won awards for my writing through Oakland University, and my film, Not For Sale was selected for four film festivals. In my spare time, I whittle, repair broken violins, and I love to fish. I reside somewhere in Michigan with my husband, children, and the fastest dog that ever lived.
Irish Poem…
A SONG OF FREEDOM by Alice Mulligan . . . In Cavan of little lakes / As I was walking with the wind / And no one seen beside me there / There came a song into my mind / It came as if the whispered voice / of one, but none of human kind … Continue reading Irish Poem…
Lorna Byrne: The woman who sees angels.
Maybe this will be white noise today, but maybe it will be some relief. I recently watched a documentary about Lorna Byrne, the woman who sees angels. She has seen them her whole life. They speak to her, they tell her things. They are with everyone, she says. Everyone is born with a guardian angel … Continue reading Lorna Byrne: The woman who sees angels.
Lost Story about the Iron Priest of Poletown
More on my journey back to the neighborhood of Poletown razed for the GM plant in 1981. Found Father Joseph Karasiewicz’s grave today against terrible wind and bone-numbing chill in a deserted graveyard. Father Joe was known as the “iron priest of Poletown”, he fought to save the Immaculate Conception church with his life. He … Continue reading Lost Story about the Iron Priest of Poletown
The First Book of Chronicles
These are my own contemplative thoughts. You might disagree and that's OK! . . "...Go and count the Israelites from Beersheba to Dan. Then report back to me so I may know how many there are." —1 Chronicles 21:2 . . Most of the first part of Chronicles is a genealogical list, which I skipped … Continue reading The First Book of Chronicles
Another Hilarious Tidbit from the Letters of Horace Walpole
One more tidbit... possibly more as these letters are hilarious. To his best friend, Sir Horace Mann, who apparently had not responded to his letters for two weeks so Walpole became “angry” and wrote that he won’t continue to give news reports to Mann, because “he’s not a newspaper.” And he repeatedly told his friend … Continue reading Another Hilarious Tidbit from the Letters of Horace Walpole
Select Letters of Horace Walpole
Oh, the wit of Walpole!! I find myself reading his letters with a perpetual smile on my face. . . . To Richard West, Esq., "About two days ago, about four o'clock in the afternoon, and about an hour after dinner, —from all which you may conclude we dine at two o'clock,—as we were picking … Continue reading Select Letters of Horace Walpole
First Corinthians…
These are only my own contemplative thoughts. You may disagree and that's OK!! "When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me." —1 Corinthians 13:11 . . To doubt His mercy … Continue reading First Corinthians…
Seasons of Grace by Leslie Tentler
Possibly the driest book I’ve ever tried to read, but I feel like this might just change my thinking somehow or maybe even my life. Why do I think this? I don’t know. It was a recommendation from one of the archivists at the Archdiocese. I trust this guy’s opinion, though I think he may … Continue reading Seasons of Grace by Leslie Tentler
Of Whales and Men by R. B. Robertson
Of Whales and Men by Dr. R. B. Robertson is a creative nonfiction piece written in the 1950s about the whaling industry and the "psychopaths" that work on the factory ship for 8 months out of the year--every year. Dr. Robertson dubbed all the whalers psychopaths because they chose a life away from civilization, to … Continue reading Of Whales and Men by R. B. Robertson
BRIANNE TURCZYNSKI 