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Days 259-263 – A Stirring Profile in Courage
[A Top 10 Column From the Archives] As you sit in comfort read this life changing account of super-human heroism by a tiny woman caught in a giant tragedy. Does peace arrive only when we choose to surrender, to let… Continue reading
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Days 245-249 – “I hurt, therefore I am.”
One day during a class, someone referenced Descartes’ famous line, “I think therefore I am.” Instantly, Michelle leaned over & whispered to me, “I hurt therefore I am.” On September 19 a two-month show of my art, honoring the idea of… Continue reading
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Days 238-242 – Why Time Does Not Go Fast
“It all went so fast,” fools say, eyes ever-fixed on the clock, instead of the moment, crushing decades into one sentence.-Erie Chapman Continue reading
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Days 232-236 – A Life-Changing Question
“In this world/ we walk on the roof of hell/ gazing at flowers.” Might you illuminate the shadows in another’s life today & paint light into both your hearts? Continue reading
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Days 224-229 – The Rise & Fall & Rise of Hope
When “the world is too much for us” a caregiver’s kindness raises hope. Continue reading
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Days 210-214 – I love you even though…
It is easy to love you when you are kind & not when you are stern. It’s simple to love your wit & complex to comprehend your self-pity.I don’t like your anger, do like your apologies, don’t like you calling… Continue reading
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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 188-192 – How Is Your Bandwidth?
Our current crises may include our rising inability to listen unless it fits our agenda. Men are notoriously bad. Continue reading
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Days 181-185 – How Can We Make a Passing Precious?
Although a life’s meaning is not defined by funeral orations it is surely a time when Love calls us to go beyond mere cliches. If you cannot write, paint a picture honoring the deceased, create a dance, assemble a scrapbook,… 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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