Category: Stories
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Building Bridges

It’s mid-afternoon and the day’s brilliant sunlight has disappeared behind thickening cloud. Still, the day is warm, if a tad breezy, and the morning was rich with bird sound, a true harbinger of spring. Last week Jennie and I learned we each had workshop proposals accepted for the Building Bridges conference in the UK this…
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Advent and End-Times

Today is the first day of Advent and this evening is the first night of Hanukah. It is a wet day, warm for the season, the damp slowly eating away at the snow pack. Here and there areas of bare grass have come into view.
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Thanksgiving Day 2018

Today is Thanksgiving Day here in the U.S., another of those complex holidays with dubious histories rooted firmly in settler imagination. The day is frigid, a deep snow pack and north wind adding to the pervasive chill. There are rabbit tracks near the house and the occasional determined bird flies by the window. The early…
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Rainy September Afternoon
A rainy, cool day; the furnace came on briefly during the night. Autumn has descended on Vermont although here by the lake green remains the dominant color. Still, in bright evening light the trees now take on a markedly yellow tint.
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