A Season of Wonder; a Season of Grief
Not one but two This is how the heart makes a duet of wonder and grief. – Mark Nepo As the earth tilts, I am dipped in darkness again, heart […]
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Gratitude as Greeting
We did our cleaning days ago. Stocked up on groceries yesterday and began cooking last night. Found the leaves for the dining room table, which we’ve not needed since pre-pandemic […]
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Change is in the air, within our personal lives, in our communities and nation and around the globe. We find ourselves in a land charted as “terra incognita,” where the […]
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“Do not depend on the hope of results,” Thomas Merton said in his letter to a young activist who was suffering from despair. Truth be told, whether in our work […]
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“The greatest thing a human soul ever does in the world is to see something and tell what [they] saw in a plain way. … To see clearly is poetry, prophecy, and […]
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Years ago, I was working in a stressful management job and one day, I walked into the executive vice president’s office and began to cry. He pushed a box of […]
+ Read MoreLove as a Verb
We could count the ways – of love, that is. Poets have done it; philosophers and theologians too. And lovers, usually without numbers. We could categorize it and define it […]
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