patience
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Good news bad news. Oh, wait.
Today Anne Lamott reminded me of an old, probably ancient, story that’s relevant again, one I’ve heard several times before and you probably have, too. In the story, a farmer wakes to find that a herd of wild horses has broken down the fences surrounding his acreage. Much repair work lies ahead for the farmer Continue reading
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Everything has become new
You may have seen artist Charles Allan Gilbert’s depiction of an elegant young woman seated at a vanity, admiring herself in the mirror. With a slight shift of perspective, the image becomes one of a human skull. Gilbert’s art is more than a trick for our eyes or a comment on vanity. It’s also a Continue reading
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The pace of nature
What do you do when you’re unable to make sense of life – when its pieces lie before you like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle with no box-top picture to help you assemble them? Are there pieces, you may wonder, that were never meant to be part of the picture you’re working on? Is there Continue reading
The Sauntering Pilgrim 