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Shift each log. Make room for air to move through. Turn your head away and inhale, deep, through nostrils. Then turn again toward the dark stove and exhale. Aim low, for the coals, but not low enough to stir the ashes. Blow out long and hard until all air is...
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(Photo Source) The seminary’s married housing sprawled in a series of low brick buildings some five miles from campus. There the newly married, newly empty-nested and a few brave families with young children resided in dilapidated cinder-block two-story...
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Photo Source A community is only being created when its members accept that they are not going to achieve great things, that they are not going to be heroes, but simply live each day with new hope, like children, in wonderment as the sun rises and in...
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A small group of women sat in a circle. The question was greeted with silence and I didn’t dare tell the truth. What would they think? It’s just not the kind of thing you admit in public. And besides that, I felt guilty. But maybe it’s...
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It’s a quiet, gray morning here. The super moon and its eclipse were hidden last night by wavy white clouds. And I was glad. Glad we could send the kids to bed, glad we could send ourselves to bed, without feeling like we missed a thing....
