Category: Stories
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Holy Innocents
A cold, cloudy day. At the horizon, patches of blue. Across the field, patches of grass stick up through the thin layer of snow. In many traditions we are still in the midst of the Christmas Season, even as we look towards Easter. For Christians, both times are, as are Hanukkah and Passover for Jews,…
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We Are All Stories
A too warm late February day. Another storm. this one rain, is promised for tonight and tomorrow. The snow from our last storm has melted. leaving increasingly green grass. I have been fascinated by story for as long as I can remember. Being older, I can now, sometimes, hold many views of story simultaneously, or…
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Late Mid-Summer
A hot, humid late mid-summer day. After weeks of off and on rain, this week is forecast to be mostly dry. We had little rain last week, although rain had been forecast, so this week’s dry spell inevitably reminds of of the drought of recent years. A couple of weeks ago Jennie and I traveled…
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Beaver People
Today dawned overcast and warm, the humidity palpable. The wind is now whipping the trees in gusts. We just took a look at the radar; it looks as though things will soon get stormy. Certainly we need the rain. While trees are predominantly green, some leaves are beginning to put on fall color; the Japanese…
