Category: Healing
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Passing Is Expensive!
Today is one of those glorious, crystalline late winter days, cold with bright sun, sparkling snow, and long deep shadows that change direction with the sun throughout the day. As it is winter, I am reading a good bit. I recently read a long essay about FDR (President Roosevelt), Polio, and the cultural demand that…
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Cold
A lovely winter’s day, clouds slowly lowering and promising snow. Over the lake fog has formed, largely blocking the mountains on the far side. I grew up in rural Illinois. During winter we had plenty of ice, snow, and cold but seldom was the cold intolerable. Indeed, we were outside in most weathers, the exception…
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Before the Storm: A Late Autumn Walk
Earlier this week I was reminded yet again that very often seemingly far away events impact our local community profoundly. Acts of terror, as it turns out, are seldom abstract and removed, nor do they lose their power to induce wide-spread grief, fear, and sorrow.
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The Presence of the Ancestors
Today is a chilly, dark, wet early November day, election day in the U.S.. The rains came mid-morning, soaking the leaves that had fallen in the showers and high winds of recent days. While many trees stand bare, there are still pockets of intense color spread here and there across the landscape.
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