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I’m Usually Pretty Good in a Crisis
So much has been happening so quickly. Last week, I began working from home part time and going into the office part time. I took the kids hiking on a nearby trail. I let the big one play with fire and try to melt crayons for art and I let the little one use all […]
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Release from Resistance
The strands of what has unraveled still twist around, waiting to be woven back in. Let’s pick them up again. This is where I am and then – the resistance. The resistance swells within me before I even get started. Everything seems too hard, too much, too boring, too overdone, too simple, too complicated. I […]
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Throw Me Your Rope
I want to say something, but what I have to say never feels like enough. Or, it seems like too much. I feel like I am sitting amidst some great divide and I can see both sides but can’t reach my arms far enough either way. I want to be a bridge, but I can’t […]
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There Is Work To Do (and an apology)
It’s the work that changed me. That’s what I want to say when someone wonders how I came to a different social, political, or religious stance than what is expected of me from those who have known me for more than 10 years or from people who perhaps make assumptions about what they expect me […]
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For Anyone Thinking There’s More To Life Than This – You’re Right
Most of us spend a lot of time on our work. Whether that work is school, parenting, a career, running a home, or any combination of the four, we spend a lot of time on it. With all the time we spend working, striving, trying to do our work well, it’s easy to forget that […]
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