Category: blog
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The Lesson of the Pansies
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For several weeks now I have been observing my balcony porch winter garden. It consists of two small red cedar trees, two box elders, and seven pots of pansies. With just-the-right positioning of my chair I can see, through two long, wide glass panels, all my pansies. This is what…
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The Advent Imperative
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A walk through a Nashville church plus a healthy dose of imagination created the image above.
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Injured forever
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241216 The chief of police, Shon Barnes, in Madison, WI matter of factly reported the stats from the mass shooting at Abundant Life Christian School a week before Christmas: three dead (including the shooter) and six wounded. And then, with a tremble in his voice, he said, “And all the children…
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Sans solace
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Sans solace / From the bombed building rubble / They pull a one-year-old child / A beautiful girl
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Waiting for the dawn
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Waiting for the dawn, a traditional Native American ritual, has been through ups and downs, thick and thin, grief and joy, a daily practice for me. In these recent days, waiting for the dawn has become a source of solace and renewal.
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Disassembly required
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As autumn creeps into our consciousness, I’ve begun to hear a common seasonal exclamation: “Isn’t the cooler weather delightful!” I notice my internal response is “Yes…but…” Yes…to the reduction of high temperatures with their wilting humidity Yes, to the yellowing of the light. Yes, to color emerging on the trees.…
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The hummers
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The first sighting was made by my sister visiting from Texas. “Look!” She exclaimed as she pointed toward the porch. Looking up, we discovered within eyeshot a tiny hummingbird flitting among my red potted flowers. It wasn’t until I mounted a feeder gifted by a neighbor that multiple daily visits…
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Vin Santo
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Every fall, after the grape harvest in Tuscany, the fragments of the field are gathered, dried, crushed, and stored in vats to become, when it is time, a sweet dessert wine called vin santo, holy wine. The myth informing the vin santo rituals originates in the fourteenth century when a…