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Things I learn
Walking barefoot on the beach is very good.
Walking five miles barefoot on the beach causes blisters which are not.
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Good Prayer
May I be filled with loving kindness.
May I be well.
May I be peaceful and at ease.
May I be happy.
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Simple Beauty
When I drink coffee drinks, I usually drink lattes or some other espresso variation. However I am also Presbyterian which means that no meeting, no social event is complete without Folgers sit-in-a-pot-for-hours coffee. I learned to drink it when I was a kid because it was always there, though the way I drank it then was a little coffee with my ( Read more... ) -
Story Sponge
People tell me that they wished they read as fast as I do. I read something on the order of 400+ books a year, counting repeats. Part of that is speed and part of that is just the voracious nature of my appetite for books. I read all the time. I read when I'm eating breakfast. I read while I walk to work. (not while I drive, but then I listen to ( Read more... ) -
His Eye is on the Sparrow
One drizzly, gray day in Chicago
I watched a sparrow fall off her phone wire
And plummet to the curb.
She'd given up,
Sick and cold
She didn't flap a wing.
It was that kind of day.
I understood.
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Faith Journey
This past weekend I was asked to speak about my faith journey to the youth of the presbytery at the big camping event of the year. Even though I talk in front of large groups of people for a living, youth can still be intimidating. Especially because I don't have one of those amazing revelatory stories that you typically hear at these things. But I ( Read more... ) -
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Busy crazy weekend full of leading children camping for me, but my new camera got here yesterday. Yay camera!
So here's a picture of the pups and the size difference between them.
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