Sep 15, 2022 | Reflections, Updates
Image: Kirsten Kautz Earworms Earworm: a piece of a song or music that runs constantly through a person’s mind. According to Google nine out of ten people have earworms. That is, they hear a catchy tune and all or part of it goes around and around in a person’s head...
Aug 21, 2022 | Reflections
Image: Nina Bisognani Girl at the Beach She was a tiny little thing when I birthed her:six pounds, eleven ounces , and barely nineteen inches long.She already had a shock of dark brown hairand sharp little fingernails. I almost didn’t make itto the hospital in time. ...
Aug 7, 2022 | Reflections
Image: Sudie Blanchard Sparrow’s Hope How does the morning greet you? Is it the sparrow’s hope that calls you from slumber? The sigh of a contented bee as it drapes the peony? The indigo sky raises its amber gaze in welcome; The tall oak responds limbs...
Aug 4, 2022 | Reflections
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Jul 8, 2022 | Reflections
This Spring, our Wednesday Book Group read Walter Brueggemann’s Praying the Psalms. Brueggemann describes the Psalms as radically vulnerable language from the experience of joy, delight, grief, anguish, fear. That language is offered to God as praise and, often, as...
Jun 9, 2022 | Reflections
Image: Barbara Ryther Dax A new baby recently joined our extended family. In the eyes of his parents, he is perfect. But in the eyes of the world, he is not. Dax has Down Syndrome. He is adorably cute. Like his mother he has reddish blonde hair and blue eyes. Like...