I love this quote on so many levels!
Not just a Whit for Wednesday
Why isn't it safe to desire, to want something with my whole heart and believe it's both attainable and a good thing? I wrote on the topic of desire last week and what's at the root of my procrastination: the heaviness, the overwhelm, of getting from here to there. It feels like too much ... …
We aren’t lost
Vive la France
I just slept for 12 hours. All day. Like so many, I'm trying to cobble together a living by working two jobs ... actually three, if you count my freelance writing business, which is getting short shrift these days. At least one of them pays benefits, finally. For a year I was paying out one-third …
Whit Wednesday
On desire and the stories we tell ourselves
"Desire is not about fulfillment. It's about working with the gap between reality and our idealized longing -- and not clinging there." ~ Jennifer Louden "It's not safe to desire." This is what I wrote in my journal yesterday as I listened to Jennifer Louden's Friday Writers Oasis audio. The prompt was to make two …
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A Tax Day Diversion Haiku
Tiny feet skitter Across the frozen tundra. April, Michigan.
On being a priest
I had an email late last month from the Universal Life Church, reminding me it's been eight years since I was ordained. When my daughter and son-in-law were getting ready to be married, I joked that I should get ordained so that I could perform the wedding. A week later, my daughter called me and …
It’s Friday … praise the lord
It’s Whit Wednesday!
Don't we all?
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