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Look how much you’ve already achieved (or why you MUST keep writing)! 27 Aug 2013 | 05:00 pm
THE FIRST STEP By Cavafy, as translated by Rae Dalven The young poet Eumenes complained one day to Theocritus: “I have been writing for two years now and I have done only one idyll. It is my only...
The power of story (and why losing such breaks my heart). 24 Aug 2013 | 04:00 pm
We live in a world of stories. Childhood fairytales shape our dreams and hopes. Family legends, imparted over kitchen table conversation, at reunions, and during road-trips, build our memory and craft...
A God you can “handle” 22 Aug 2013 | 05:00 pm
One so often hears people say, “I just can’t handle it,” when they reject a biblical image of God as Father, as Mother, as Lord or Judge; God as lover, as angry or jealous, God on a cross. I find this...
The Young Girl Within 19 Aug 2013 | 05:00 pm
There is an old, old story told of a man with much power and prestige. But all of it meant nothing, afforded him nothing, accomplished him nothing when faced with his twelve-year-old daughter who lay ...
I already know! 16 Aug 2013 | 05:00 pm
More times than I care to count, I have found myself in a particular circumstance – often involving my deepest heart – and wondering why I feel what I do…again. Wondering how I have allowed the same c...
On money and what I can (and can’t) afford. 12 Aug 2013 | 06:58 pm
A story is told of Jesus sitting in the temple with his disciples. Together they watched as the crowds dropped their money into the treasury. Not surprisingly, the richest people threw in the largest ...
The extraordinary merits of being ordinary. 5 Aug 2013 | 05:00 pm
The desire, temptation, and lure to live an extraordinary life is strong; to figure out our “one thing;” to do – create – be – achieve – rise up – astonish – accomplish – shine. It’s exhausting, real...
4 movements, a bridge, and the refrain 30 Jul 2013 | 05:00 pm
1 What if Eve’s desire was the most Divine aspect of her nature? What if her choice was the best thing she could have ever done; the very thing that ushered in a brand new, expansive, and never-imag...
Wild blueberries, Gloria Steinem, and God. 23 Jul 2013 | 05:00 pm
Even as you appeared to Moses, because I need you, you appear to me, not often, however. I live essentially in darkness. You are perhaps training me to be responsive to the slightest brightening. Or,...
Grit + Grace = You 20 Jul 2013 | 11:34 pm
I text the word “grrrrr” so often that my iPhone no longer attempts to auto-correct. It’s not a word, really; it’s a sound and an expression. It is just right for friends when they are stuck in traffi...
