Heather Isaacs

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hospice chaplain

  • Good-bye, Summer. Thank you for the Old Trees and Ostrich Feet.

    I am saying good-bye to a summer that I was barely present for. This summer was almost entirely lost to me in a dizzying spin of overnight hospital shifts and hours-long commutes across half the state as I patch together a new life for myself since I left full-time hospice chaplaincy work a year ago. Read more

  • The Club of Holy Book Destroyers

    A few years ago, an obscure pastor in Florida held a sacred book in one hand and the promise of a lighter in another, threatening, in effect, to throw an ideological grenade into a crowded room and take the viewing world hostage in an unprecedented display of evangelistic theatrics and foreign policy nightmare. I raised Read more

  • Take My Hand

    “Nearby is the country they call life. You will know it by its seriousness. Give me your hand.”    –Rainer Marie Rilke She was an octagenarian living in an advanced state of dementia. Completely bedbound and dependent, she no longer spoke except for increasingly rare one-word utterances. Mostly, she stared into space or slept but once Read more