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Here is today’s newspaper article, written this time by my daughter instead of me about her experience on Capitol Hill last summer:
Thank you to devoted blog reader Patricia C. for sharing this. I thought many of these were interesting.
For my oldest daughter’s birthday we gave her a dress to wear to a fancy “cotillion” at school. She originally thought she wanted the fabulous blue dress but
Yeah! I’m celebrating my third year of this daily blog. I have a tradition of making a “best of” list with links, which folks have found it especially helpful
– You blog readers may recognize the gorgeous pitcher and bowl set my husband gave me; I had drooled over it last October in a visit to a consignment shop that I blogged about. I never dreamed he would return and buy it for me. On Christmas morning, he left clue #1 at the bottom … Read more
– Bonnie Ware, was a palliative nurse, caring for many dying people during the last weeks of their lives. 19809
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1. Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.
“If your daily life seems of no account, don’t blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its treasures. For the creative artist there is no impoverishment and no worthless place.” –Rainer Maria Rilke This quote is an apt summary of this blog where I share a small fraction of … Read more
This is what I shared at our town’s ecumenical Thanksgiving service last Tuesday night. Everyone always has these things they can be grateful for! Happy Thanksgiving!
While at church in Boston last Sunday, I had the privilege of meeting Jenny Sawyer who has the website 60secondrecap.com that produces short video clip summaries of typical high school reading. Check out her library of clips about assigned reading such as Shakespeare or Lord of the Flies, or check out her pick of the … Read more
Why am I? What do I have to give? There is much talk about purpose these days, and many folks are struggling with questions about whether they are doing the right thing with their life. They spend a lot of energy sorting out what human typecast or exterior construct their purpose should conform to, when … Read more
There is nothing more important than being your true self. This does not mean catering to your human personality, but instead, expressing and embracing your actual individuality as created by God. There is nothing more noble or satisfying than being exactly what God made you to be. It is counterproductive to let personality define you … Read more
Today I drove to Rhode Island and back to visit Brown Engineering School with my son who is a senior in High School and in the process of applying to college.
In recent weeks I’ve been pondering the list below, posted by my brother-in-law on Facebook. I regularly do pretty well on about half of them, and at least one of them is a huge struggle for me. Do you want to join me in earnestly trying to do all ten daily?
“Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us that we are nothing but acorns and that our greatest happiness will be to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns; but that is of interest only to pigs. Our faith gives us knowledge of something much better: that we can become oak trees.” E.F. Schumacher Sept/Oct Quest Magazine … Read more
