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Poetry Friday: The great things
My brain is worried and tired. I pick up the encyclopedia, The volume GIC to HAR, It seems I have read everything in it, So many other nights like this. I sit staring…
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Early morning bike ride
I have two very happy memories of being on a bike as a child. In the first, I was about 4 years old, sitting on my tricycle on the front sidewalk. It had…
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“Drenched, dizzied, and bedevilled”: An Experiment in Criticism
“It was bound to happen,” I thought at some points as I read An Experiment in Criticism, “a C.S. Lewis work I don’t care for. I’m kind of relieved about it, actually; I’ve…
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Seeds
We planted some lettuce, beans, and peas today. Tomorrow we’ll put in cucumber and tomato plants, and some kohlrabi, and hope for the best. It was hot — in the 90’s. In other…
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Rail Trail Sights
I’ve been going down to a local railroad-bed-turned-walking trail and jogging this spring. Sometimes the whole family goes, my husband running a little farther and faster, the girls on bikes. Sometimes I go…
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Spilling out the lego box
I have several things bouncing around in my head this morning. Here are some of them, with no connective tissue other than that they’re all bouncing on the same court. Or how about…
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Speaking the Truth in Love: A Re-Post
I woke up thinking about this post from the past, and wondering: can you “speak the truth in love” in a public forum? I am not sure. Maybe you can. Certainly you can…
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“Christian” response to error
There has been so much derision directed at Harold Camping that I found this response to be refreshing. I’m not someone who believed the world would end on Saturday. And as has been…
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What’s On Your Nightstand: May 2011
5 Minutes for Books hosts this monthly opportunity to consider what you’ve read over the last month, or what you’re anticipating over the next month. Since the last Nightstand, here’s what I’ve read:…
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The Wogs
On Friday, we came home from a visit with my parents with some polliwogs to observe. We’re keeping them on the front porch. This morning marks our fourth day with them, and they’re…