caregivers
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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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Days 153-157 – Are We Awake?
George MacDonald (b.1824) warned, “We must wake our souls unnumbered times a day.” The key word is “souls.” Our soul can tell us how to spend our time. Mine tells me to create. Each day Love hands me what the camera… Continue reading
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Days 127-131 – Hope Tucked in Old Movies
“‘Always try to see life around ya as if you’d just come out of a tunnel.'” – Jimmy Stewart, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) Thank you for holding high Love’s light – especially when darkness seems unending. Thank you… Continue reading
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