Tag: healing
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Veterans Day 2015
We have come to the time in the year’s changing that our thoughts turn to those who have fought on behalf of their countries. Mine turn to my father, uncles, cousins, and step-fathers. My father held the precarious position of being proud for his service in three wars, and being profoundly disturbed by, and suspicious…
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Ancestors, Ceremony, and Trauma
Today dawned gray and wet. We took advantage of the clock change, and slept in. Now, to the west the low overcast is raising. The oaks have turned abruptly; the maples have largely dropped their leaves and the breeze moves their bare branches. It is the sort of day that Thomas Hardy celebrated when he…
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We are Still Here
This morning dawned warm and bright, with autumn’s colors seemingly more prevalent across the landscape than they were last evening. While today is forecast to be in the mid-seventies, there is talk of snow in the mountains by the weekend. Today is Columbus Day, a good day to consider the history of European influence in…
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On Longing to Heal the Fractures of Self and World
The day is cool and breezy. Clear, blue skies hold the first flotations of autumn leaves. Nights have turned chilly, and the turning year leads us toward the resting time. I recently met with a young person who was suffering. That meeting left me thinking about how, when we are young, it is so easy…
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