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Peace Must Be Made Where You Are
It’s always so easy to complain about the weather. And indeed. The weather right now is challenging. Hot and Muggy. And my church is having another yard sale. oh, boy. But this is the day we have. We...
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Peace in Moving Beyond
Sometimes I realize what a stick I’ve become. Do I really want to go to a Burning Man Party I wonder? Oh, yes, I did. It was just marvelous. Not only the food, Ann’s first way of judging a party! But a...
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That Reading, Snuggling Peace
For those of us who miss our grandchildren — we need to cultivate local kids to keep our hand in the game. Someone wants or needs a story to be read to them. Someone wants or needs to read a story to...
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Parties for Peace
We had a wonderful party last night for Steve’s birthday. 75-80 people showed up and everyone had a good time. Including the Birthday Boy. I’m so lucky to have found Love in my 50s and to have him be...
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New World New Peace
It’s one of those stupid things I’ll never understand. How is it that people decide that the most important thing in their religion is determining when the world will end. In Christianity, it demands...
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Heirloom Peace
So often you say the word heirloom and you think big meaningful things (unless of course it’s summer and you think tomatoes or peppers!). But the things i treasure the most are the little things. The...
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Busy Weekend (Sabbath) Peace!
What a rich weekend. Friday night at King Street Coffee House and great friends playing. Doing ceremony — a sad tribute to a lovely woman. An evening all about friends and listening to a dear friend...
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Goblins, Ghosties, Memories, Peace
For some it’s about the mad or the weird, for me it’s about remembering. I have a pretty full altar, The past 20 years have been hard on my heart. A lot of beloved friends have gone on before. In...
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Jumbled Thoughts, Big Houses, Acts of War, Love, Peace
I wrote the musing about Newport’s big Houses. They’re so ostentatious and huge. And loads of them were for sale. No surprise, who can keep them up? And yet so beautiful. A product of their age and our...
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The Ties that Bind Us to Peace
I was caught off guard. It’s not that I don’t miss them all individually. And sometimes I miss the family. I know a lot of people who know that I lost them. But I don’t know many people who knew us...
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A Quiet, Fall, Sabbath Peace
I spent yesterday cosseting a cold. I’ll do a few more things today. But not a lot. My guess is that nothing I do will be visible — i’ll work on the infrastructure of my life. There are sweaters to be...
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Thanksgiving Peace
It’s a pretty miraculous thing. A whole day dedicated to giving thanks. A sacred holiday. A sacred season. Which means being aware of just how lucky, how blessed we are. It feels so luxurious, so...
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Thanksgiving Peace Again
So many things for which to give thanks. So many things to remember. And yesterday, we made new memories. It’s a great holiday, isn’t it, Really just created for the opportunity to build more memories....
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Embracing Advent Peace
After hearing the the vile hatred spewn last night, celebrating open arms becomes even more important that even the day before. We cannot allow fear and hatred to run our lives. We cannot allow it to...
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Cherishing Advent Peace
Here at a time in my life when so much of my family has died, I have had to make decisions about what and when I cherish. What do I bring forward from that life with them? What do I call out from my...
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Remembering the Peace of Advent
One of the hard truths about this time of year is that we are forced to confront what we may have missed, or have lost. For some of us, those of us who are very privileged, the holidays have been...
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Joy in Advent Sabbath Peace
Today we light the third Advent Candle Joy. Let us welcome Hope! Love! Joy! It’s the Sabbath. Today it really feels true. Tonight we’re having an Anti-Gun-Violence Vigil. It’s such a solemn thing —...
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Peacefully Coexisting
How much more than the title do we need to say? Side-by-side coexistence… a great start to joyful mingling. But because we will always have differences, co-existence is going to be a forever thing. We...
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Welcoming Peace
Peace is a tiny tentative thing, in need of our nurturance and tender care. For me, this is the heart of the Christmas message, this is what I wish for us all, that we be those who welcome and care for...
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Quiet, Grateful Peace
Second Day Christmas is a lovely day in my world. On the second day of many holidays, Steve and I make our way to his brother’s house by the river and celebrate with his family in a lovely and low key...
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