Month: June 2020

Written by Chandlee Lewis Offerman

Antepenultimate

I love words. It’s fun and challenging to choose the perfect one for the situation–my brain is like a quivering mouth salivating in front of a sumptuous buffet and deciding whether to take scalloped, roasted, or Duchesse potatoes–or maybe go in a different direction and take the Belgian endive. The right word enables descriptive, concise, […]

Written by Chandlee Lewis Offerman

“Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever…”—Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, 1782

“that his justice cannot sleep forever….” The phrase entices one to wonder, when? When will it be that God will wake his sleeping justice and unleash it on this nation? How loud and terrifying a clamor must His justice raise, what kind of ‘terrible swift sword’ must it wield to make Americans right the wrongs […]