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(I recently spent six days inpatient in a local Behavioral Health unit due to the onset of severe and debilitating panic attacks. I continue to work now, on the other side of that darkness, to process the experience, to understand its place in my story. To...
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What does the bud feel the day before its opening? Deep desire for the light and the anticipation of dancing in the wind. And what of the bud that fails to open, standing closed along-side its star-burst sisters? Maybe she sleeps still, content with the dream of...
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It was mid-April 2013 when we sat at the kitchen table with our realtor discussing price points and all of the other details of listing our house for sale. Timing was important to me, I wanted to sell and buy quickly, to have it all said and done by the time...
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I was so grateful a few weeks ago to receive an invitation from Amber Cadenas to write something for her blog, Beautiful Rubbish: the everyday art of learning to see. Amber’s running a series of guest posts under the topic “Tales of Beauty from the...
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Thirty More Years, by Wendell Berry When I was a young man, grown up at last, how large I seemed to myself! I was a tree, tall already, and what I had not, yet reached, I would yet grow to reach. Now, thirty more years added on, I have reached much ...
