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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The Alchemy of Grief
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 […]
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Never before, in my experience, has Thanksgiving looked like this — the turkey waiting to be roasted while the guest list dwindles to our immediate household, all of us advised […]
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The table is set. Flowers arranged and candles burning. The house fragrant with food cooking since morning. Guests arriving with dishes that jostle for space, first in the oven, then […]
+ Read MoreThe Whole Cloth of Our Lives: the warp and weft of vocation
Vocation is sometimes described as a thread strung through our life that marks how and where we have followed our calling, whether it is in the work we do for […]
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