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Days 203-207 – NEW MESSIAH?
Do we need a new Messiah, the Daughter of God? That is the question I will pose in a one person art exhibit this September at Vanderbilt Divinity School’s Art Gallery. What gender, race & message? What do you think? Continue reading
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Days 190-194 – Etched Not on Stone but in Hearts
Just as we are all children of God we are letters from God not etched into stone tablets but in the hearts of others. This is the “framing” that matters most. For framed or unframed our lives will leave a legacy… Continue reading
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Days 160-164 – City of God, City of Man
Every life is fraught with longing.Truth, the home of wrinkled skin & revealed secrets. Compassion, nursing the starving at her breasts. Love, finally freeing the artist’s hand & liberating arias from the poet’s heart. Only these three swim us close… Continue reading
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Days 268-272 – “Room at the Top of the World”
Our “room at the top of the world” is not a thousand miles away but within – or not at all. I have found mine & I ain’t comin’ down. Continue reading
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Days 192-196 A Land of Oneness?
"It is easy to turn away from a stranger, the unknown other, from the faceless in a crowded sea of otherness." – Liz Wessel In her weekend essay (& exceptional painting) Liz Wessel answered a question that I also… Continue reading
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Days 185-189 – Life was not wasted on her…
Many of us squander our time on earth. Life was not wasted on Gretchen. She embraced it, drank its champagne, painted it the color of Argentina, changed a city & impacted hundreds of thousands. Continue reading
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Days 101-105 – The Crushing of Individuality
In this 11-second video, my fifth grandchild experiences his first bite of solid food & turns up his nose. Then his mom makes him laugh. Will his subconscious record that eating the dislikable can be fun? Society strives to crush… Continue reading
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Days 62-63 Hope
To All Caregivers Far and Wide, May you come to see your life as a quiet sacrament of service, which awakens around you a rhythm where doubt gives way to the grace of wonder, where what is awkward and strained… Continue reading
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Days 36-40 – The Harmonic Cosmos
When Einstein was stuck developing his theory of relativity he often picked up his violin “to reconnect with the harmonies of the universe.” Radical Loving Care is a theory of caregiving. Healing is grounded in God’s love. Thus healing flows from… Continue reading
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