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“We Want the Cycle to Stop”
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Please listen to this interview and tell me what headline you’d write for it:
(The interview is at http://www.npr.org/2014/08/14/340422502/ferguson-pastor-this-is-not-a-race-issue-this-is-a-human-issue)
A friend posted the NPR interview with the Rev. Willis Johnson, triggered by a photo of him and an 18-year-old young man in the crowd...
Random Thoughts August 2014
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Random Thoughts:
* When it comes to what we call domestic violence, we refuse to acknowledge society’s interest in not having someone beat someone else up—if she forgives him, well, we should too
* If your brand of religion doesn’t make you joyous to be alive, you might want to rethink that
* If anything really bad ever happened...
Beach Exuberance
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Tomorrow, we go to the beach. I am, as Alan Greenspan used to say, irrationally exuberant. We’ve been going to this beach since I was in the eleventh grade. That’s a long time. My daddy introduced us to the beach—he vacationed nearby when he was a kid. The beach, for me, was emblematic of a new state of being that began in junior...
It’s Here—The Cover Art!
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WRITING OUR WAY HOME: A GROUP JOURNEY OUT OF HOMELESSNESS
(THE BOOK)
Photos from Our Trip
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Selected photos of our trip from in Central Europe
Our Very Own Banner
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I cannot be at the Wednesday morning church service this week where “art” is defined as crosses made from chip bags thrown into the streets of the neighborhood, but I’m there nonetheless.
I stab my thumb with my needle, and I’m remembering the suggestions for images to include on our new banner: an eagle, World...
Spinning Plates, or The Writing Life
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Thank you to my friend and neighbor Susan Cushman for tagging me at Pen and Palette to answer some questions about my writing. If you don’t follow Susan’s blog, go take a look. Susan blogs regularly on writing, mental health, and faith; her post on Shrinking the Monsters discusses her own writing process. Susan is a wonderful supporter of...
Grandparent Love
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We sat on the flat rock by the shore of Lake Pontchartrain dropping pebbles into the water-filled crevice of the rock while we watched the red ball of the sun drop swiftly—it’s disappearing as we watch!—into the blue clouds, rounded as mountains.
As Tom and I said our goodbyes, Aubrey said, “I had fun dropping pebbles into the...
Join with me in prayer
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Please enjoy this wonderful prayer poem from John Thomas Dodds