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photo credit* The Golden Globe awards were on last night, the show which honors not only television but movie shows, their actors and actresses. I had a vested interest in the outcome for the “Into the Woods” cast–not ONE award–shock! Of course, the real reason I watched was for the fashions–who was wearing what. Katherine…
It’s the beginning of a New Year; a new start, a fresh beginning. Are you making any resolutions? I’ve made only one. It’s like the over arching bridge that supports all the rest of my year. My resolution? To remember whose I am. I have the privilege of Guest Posting over at Jennifer Dukes Lee’s…
“If everyone valued home above gold, this world would be a merry place.” Bilbo Baggins, The Hobbit, Battle of the Five Armies Home is where we are welcomed, where laughter flows and prayers are offered around the table, where silly photos are snapped in the kitchen and grown-ups dance to music from The Nutcracker…
More thoughts from my Deck Time, prompted by ‘God in the Yard’ (Spiritual Practice for the Rest of Us)**, an ongoing full stop in the middle of my days. There’s a scientific rule, I think, about forward motion–the more intensely and quickly an object is moving, the harder it is to slow down. Something like…
The Seattle rain is doing its October thing–pouring, puddling, splattering–and the cold gray world matches my mood. A windstorm blew through last night and fractured one of the oldest trees in town….an apt picture of the chasm created again by the world gone crazy with pain. Three hours north of me last Friday, a high…
Barbara Crooker is a quiet soul and a richly talented woman. I first heard Barbara’s “voice” via a broadcast of ‘Prairie Home Companion’ when Garrison Keillor read one of her poems. I continued to discover her voice and work as it appeared in various publications, Rock and Sling, Christianity and Literature, The Christian Century, Spiritus, and…