Category: awareness
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What Is It About Light
A message for the December 13, 2015 Interfaith Jazz Vespers of Mt Olive Lutheran Church, Santa Monica, CA. What is it about Light? From the first flickers of fire, and the dim dusk and dawn, humans have been drawn to light. I don’t just mean teen boys and their pyro…
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Beautiful Glass and Joy
The glass can cut you. It can let you see the world clearly. It can hold life giving water. It can keep out the storms. It can be half full or empty. We look right through it- but how often do you see the glass? I just watched a video clip…
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When Racial Tension Isn’t the Issue, but Contributes Nonetheless; What Shall I Say?
I cannot respond from any place other than my own. I recognize that I write from privilege and apologize for my ignorance or ineptitude, but silence is worse than the fault of trying imperfectly. The tragic and shocking death of a Virginia reporter and cameraman is rocking the nation this…
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Why I blog
I have been asked before why I blog, but the answer was never as clear as what I heard in a class on Job today; “Sometimes we just need to speak and for just one other person to hear.” That is why I blog, to put my small, lone voice…
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question
Originally posted and written 2-19-2009 I hear this friend,her mom is dying.Soon she will no longer hold her mommy. I watch the tv, stories of reaching, grasping, desperation and I think…how horrible for them. I know divorce anddeath and poverty are all around, most times not so silent. My…
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it feels like the first time- all over again- starting a new degree
You would think that once you have been to a couple of colleges, they all would start to have a large degree of commonality. Not so. I am floundering around again to learn new terms for a new college and, in the mindset of BK, doing it “their way.” Let…
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The answer is… suck it up and drive on
Many a time I am asked, “How do you do it? How do you live with a man, give him your heart and bear him children, all while knowing he may leave for battle and never return?” They even ask, “How does he do it? How does he live with…
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facebook gave me roots
We hear it all the time, “facebook ruined my marriage, my friendship, got me fired…”. Well apart from the fact that a computer program cannot do those things, I am here to say that facebook has done something really good, really true, of value, of moment, in my life. I…
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breathe…..
For Jeannie, and all who live a day of life missing a loved one who has gone on before us. You took that breath last night in awe and wonder at amber moon light.Missing those loved ones now a memory, wondering if connection yet exists. You breathed them back into…
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night carries on
tis three a.m. and me again, yet wandering to your doorthe kettle’s on to sing the song that lets me sleep once more.my mind all wired and tangled up in dreams that cannot bemy pen and cup the tincture sure for whate’er be aillin me. moonlight the witness, the lonely…
Mistress of Divinity 