Tag: 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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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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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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