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Daily Dyspraxia* Moment-I Do try to get organized!
I have about 20 'diaries' and ' journals', but it's funny how I start writing and end up looking for colored pencils, pens, paint, glue, and prettty shiny things.....and my journal pages end up looking...
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Making Hay and Holiness
I have been reading letters written by my father describing the summer ritual called 'haying'. Even after he left home as a young man, like a bird driven by instinct at the changes in the light, he...
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Daily Dyspraxia* Moment
...neither is it too much coffee, drug or alcohol withdrawal.Being Dyspraxic is to be judged by your body or moments of being so tongue tied you have to check your ID when someone asks you your name.I...
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INARTICULATE--A Poem about conversation in Sacred Places
INARTICULATE And the light shone in darkness and Against the Word the unstilled world still whirled About the centre of the silent Word. -T. S. Eliot Words I speak, laid out in lines never seem...
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Daily Dyspraxia* Moment -A Confession
Once, when someone asked me directions to a place I know well, I pretended I didn't speak English.And yes I have had to use my GPS to get home many times when I was within 2 miles from home. Remember...
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Count to Ten
Count to Ten Four. Seven Nine Ten! and she giggles at her childish joke.I take a breath to correct her, but I stop. Am I handing her a knife,signs to heavy for anyone to wield?Am I teaching her...
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Love Me, Love My Dog
My Service dog, my right hand (or my left-I don't know the difference), my right foot to my two left feet...Asher.
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Intimate Absence
There are legitimate experiences of absence within this ever-present world of God's grace, but they are forms and modes of love. Such were the experiences of the prophets of the Old Covenant, of the...
View Article"Let the statues crumble. You have always been the place."
I dedicate this poem to my 2 daughters, THE TYPE bySarah KayIf you grow up the type of woman men want to look at,You can let them look at you.But do not mistake eyes for hands or windows of...
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Of Arrows and Holes and Other Bizarre Products of 'Natural Theology"
Extending a comment I made over at Bilgrimage about the nature of sexuality, relationships and complementarianism.
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LET REALITY RETURN TO OUR SPEECH -Czeslaw Milosz
Tonight while watching the 'Live Nativity' at our church I was struck by the utter simplicity of it all; how concrete and REAL it all was. And I recalled reading (many times) Czeslaw's poem, A...
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More Milosz...One Day We Will All Have To Confront Our Pride.
2. A Poet Who Was Baptized -From A Theological Treatise byCzeslaw Milosz A poet who was baptizedin the country church of a Catholic parish. And encountereddifficulties with his fellow believers. He...
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Wandering on the outskirts of heresy is about right for me -Milosz
3. I Am Not -From: A Theological Treatise byCzeslaw Milosz I am not, and I do not want to be, a possessor of the truth.Wandering on the outskirts of heresy is about right for me. In order...
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...dogmas are few inches too high; we stand on our toes and for a moment it...
4. I Apologize I apologize, most reverend theologians, for a tone not befitting the purple of your robes. I thrash in the bed of my style, searching for a comfortable position, not too sanctimonious,...
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Changed Into A Can Of Preserves... -Milosz
5. A Burden -From A Theological Treatise byCzeslaw Milosz Mickiewicz - why dabble with him if he has been sufficiently accommodated to every day use.Changed into a can of preserves which shows, when...
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Yet we believed that some of us had received a gift, a grace, to spite the...
6. In Vain -From A Theological Treatise byCzeslaw Milosz Either gods are omnipotent and, judging by the world they created, not good; or they are good, and the world slipped from their...
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The Distance Between What We Know And What We Reveal -Milosz
7. I Always Liked -From A Theological Treatise byCzeslaw Milosz I always liked Mickiewicz, though I didn’t know why. Then I realized that he was writing in cipher.And that this was a...
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How Yes And No, Good And Evil Came To Be -Milosz
9. Not Out of Frivolity -From A Theological Treatise byCzeslaw Milosz Not out of frivolity, most reverend theologians, I busied myself with the secret knowledge of many centuries, but...
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On the Seventh Day of Christmas my Cardiologist gave to me…an Angioplasty and...
MUSIC, STROKES, HEAT-DISEASE, BELL'S PALSY AND READJUSTING TO AN UNPREDICTABLE LIFENot many people know what has been going on and why this blog, which I had such high hopes for, didn’t quite make it...
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A Matter of Vision...Living on the Margins and a Thousands Little Deaths.
It's 5am and I've got a few songs, a few poems and a few posts rambling around in my brain. On my blog dashboard there is a "Quick Post" to just write something fast and send it off with all the...
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