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It’s relentless, this rain. Has been all night. Buckets coming down, washing away the last of the snow and I […]
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It’s relentless, this rain. Has been all night. Buckets coming down, washing away the last of the snow and I […]
I don’t know how to make the uncomfortable comfortable, never mind joyful, which is what Christmas by all rights ought […]
Happy, happy, happy Monday! There’s a fresh coat of snow outside my door and a fresh calendar page in front […]
How to make this the best Christmas ever? Maybe… 1…relax. Your expectations, that is. Those demands that you put on […]
“There is nothing so secular that it cannot be sacred, and that is one of the deepest messages of the […]
It’s all so improbable, this grace thing. Looking for it. Finding it (mostly when you’re not looking, and mostly in […]
So yeah, December 10th. And yeah, busy. You too? All of us, maybe. Or maybe just most of us are […]
I’ve taken to listening to Christmas records in the afternoons lately. Okay, this is not so surprising, since it’s December. […]
There are, in my not at all calculated or based on any real evidence opinion, approximately a hundred-thousand-gazillion products that […]
It’s December 3rd and already my to-do list is three pages long. Typed. Single spaced. 10 point font. There’s not […]
What is today, but tomorrow’s yesterday? Cute saying, but what – if anything – can it teach us? Well, if […]
I was going to publish this post on Thanksgiving. I mean, I really did write it Thanksgiving morning, just past […]
Not fretting about the future. Not regretting the past. Not wondering or worrying about tomorrow or next week or whether […]
I am trying to paint. I am trying so hard to paint. I primed my canvas. Set up the easel. […]
Yes, even you. You who looks in the mirror and sees the flaws first. You who remembers failures too often. […]
I love my house. It’s tucked into the woods far enough to feel like you’re…well…like you’re tucked in the woods, […]
Joy. It’s that elusive something that we’re all sort of wanting to find, wanting to hold, wanting to keep close […]
I don’t really know of any other way to do it. Prepare to perform a piece of music well, that […]
It’s so easy to see the large times, the big things. The over-the-top sunrise that knocks you upside the head […]
This is for all you moms and dads and friends and sisters and brothers and anyone-who’s-ever-loved-anyone. Show up. It matters. […]