Miscellany
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Spiritual Atmosphere
Have you realized that most of your unhappiness in life is due to the fact that you are listening to yourself instead of talking to yourself? Take those thoughts that come to you…
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Glimpses from this week
There’s going to be a wedding around here… My older daughter designed and made a wedding dress, as well as a black felt tuxedo for the groom. It entailed two trips to JoAnn’s,…
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In a box
My friend Christina gave me these tiny Russian dolls when she returned from Moscow several years ago. They aren’t nesting dolls; they don’t open up so you can fit one inside the other.…
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A rare post on politics
Normally I don’t write about national economics, which are generally far too complex for me. But this interview on NPR last night has been bugging me ever since I heard it. Here’s the…
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Living the questions
I love this quote from Rilke’s Letters to a Young Poet: …Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves… Do not… seek the answers,…
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New birds
Today we went to a new place for a walk, and we got to watch a kingfisher for awhile. I couldn’t help thinking of the Hopkins poem about how “kingfishers catch fire,” one…
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How does your garden grow?
I used to participate in a round-up called the Sunday Garden Stroll over at A Wrung Sponge. The Stroll is no longer going, but today I snapped a few pictures of the garden…
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A few pics from the woods
We’re back from a long weekend in the woods, and I didn’t get a lick of reading in. Honestly, I’m exhausted from this short “vacation,” for a variety of reasons. But there were…
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Staggering
8 To me, the very least of all saints, this grace was given, to preach to the Gentiles the unfathomable riches of Christ, 9 and to bring to light what is the administration…
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