Church suppers, a competition to bring the most scrumptious food, the stickiest candied anything, the salads most loaded in dressings and fats. And at the church, blessed by the priest or pastor, certainly God-approved. Who could decline? You can. Who […]
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Who I Want to Be
She is who I want to be an adventurer, a nomad, opening each day of life like a blank page to be filled. ~ June Dowis Each day is the first day of the rest of life. Of course, it’s […]
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The Angel of St. Marye’s Heights, a youth wearing grey surveyed a field of blue injured after the battle, after a day lying injured, December, thousands of men. Armed armies faced each other, listening to misery, fearful, avoiding adding theirs to the […]
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On the day I called, you answered me, you increased my strength of soul. ~ Psalms 138:3 (NRSV) She was your mother, of course, but did that make a difference? I mean, of course it did, but still you love […]
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Blessed. It feels like I’m blessed when I’ve gone through a challenge, emerging safely. Like a bounteous meal with foods I know set off triggers in me, that set me on a binge at least until Valentines. I know how […]
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