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A Memorable Woman
“Time to wet your hair again?” – her voice, her presence like tinkling wind chimes, as she nods toward her chair, her yellow smock set off by daisies. Deft hands tuck a blue towel around my neck, lower...
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Beasts of the Southern Wilds
In the 2012 fantasy film, Beasts of the Southern Wilds, five year-old Hush Puppy’s name suggests a savory deep fried cornbread ball served with catfish, one of the staple foods enjoyed by the misfits...
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Anne of Green Gables
An early memory in a crowded store, decorated for Christmas, still chills me. My hand sought Mother’s, somewhere above my head, but it was hard, cold. It belonged to a mannequin. To my dismay, such...
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Love
Love just is; golden in it simplicity. Author Unknown Filed under: Blogs Tagged: energy, mystery, sacred, simplicity, withinness
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The Courier. His indomitable spirit illumines
The outer door opens a crack, an NB scuffed shoe wedges it open further, a right shoulder leans into it even further. A right hand reaches around for the wheeled cart behind him and thrusts it inside...
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Power
There is a story of a French peasant woman in the winter of 1839. One night she happened upon Anne Chauvin, a poor, blind, partially paralyzed, old woman collapsed upon a snow-packed street,...
View ArticleAmahl and the Night Visitors
Oh mother! You should go out and see! There’s never been such a sky. ………………………………………………….. Hanging over our roof, there is a star as large as a window; and the star has a tail, and it moves across the...
View ArticleAshes
It was taking so long, I fumed, as I stood over a flat pan filled with pieces of burning palm, from last year’s celebration of Palm Sunday. Only straggly bits of ash broke free from the snapping...
View ArticleTrust
“By all means, we’ve got to stay happy! Whatever we can do to keep it going …” she gushed as another chimed in with a joke about hand washing. This morning’s talk show hosts chuckled as they described...
View ArticleCPA Step Seven
Step Seven of Chronic Pain Anonymous – Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings. In Recipe for Recovery I found the description for Humility, central to Step Seven and CPA recovery: “…we accept and...
View ArticleAnother Dream
At 3:45 A.M. I awoke with this curious dream, with its lesson for today: During my absence from home, Martha had hung a paint-by-numbers scene of a wooded area, its colors garish and bleeding, over a...
View ArticleSeeds of Happiness
“Do you accept birthday presents before your birthday?” asked the hospice nurse, her voice filled with smiles behind her mask. I warmed beneath her compassionate gaze as she sat opposite me at my...
View ArticleMoccasins
Silence’s beaded moccasins shush along forested paths, teeming with freshets of clear springs: my psyche splits apart with endless life, burgeoning with laughter. I’m sitting in my wing back chair,...
View ArticleJoy
The experience of joy quivers our existential depths with sweet wordlessness, then casts an afterimage of longing within its waning. Then, it’s gone altogether, and the humdrum returns—another paper to...
View ArticleTouching the Heart of God
February is already slipping into its second week of colorlessness. True, a splotch of red will play with Valentine’s Day but then recede into blandness, one that enervates imaginations, yet unleashes...
View ArticleDo You Want To Get Well Again?
Do You Want To Get Well Again? – John 5:7 Yet another question I pose to myself as I continue reflecting upon Jesus of Nazareth this Holy Week. Those who received his healing touch or word or presence...
View ArticleDream
At 1:15 A.M., I awoke with this lovely dream: Sunshine swelled four yellow rosebuds atop a barren hill, still captive to freezing rains. Sandaled toddlers crouched around the plants, tentatively...
View ArticleSadie
Her name was Sadie—part this and part that, but mostly she was heart that she shared with her owner and my friend for sixteen years—until this morning. Soulful brown eyes, floppy ears, smooth-haired...
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