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No Bucket List for This Gal!

I think I will tear my hair out if one more person asks, “How’s your bucket list coming along?”  The implication is that I’m running out of time to camp in the Sahara, jump out of an airplane, learn Italian or any number of demanding feats. If I were to answer, “The hell with a bucket list,” in all likelihood, I’d be considered [...]

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Everyday Angels

GUEST POST by MICHAEL STEINMAN I did not grow up in the tradition of angels, except as tropes in comic books and cartoons.  Harps and wings, no no.  I did not watch Touched by Angel or the Hallmark Channel.  Frank Capra’s Clarence was all right because he was a homespun mortal, sweetly goofy.  Later, I encountered angels aplenty in [...]

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My Search for Meaning

Aging has brought a renewed interest in the spiritual questions I grappled with during my late-night college bull sessions.  Is there a God?  Can prayer make a difference?  What is my spiritual path? In my middle years I was too busy raising children and building a career to grapple with meaning of life questions with the intensity of my [...]

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Mary Oliver: Poetry That Heals

I feel like I’m living inside the song, “Stop the World I Want to Get Off,” as I reel from our climate crisis, Afghanistan’s unraveling and a new Covid surge. Mary Oliver to the rescue! I pull one of her poetry books from my shelf, find a quiet place to stretch out and start to read. Oliver’s poems are balm for my soul. They settle [...]

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How Gratitude Can Chase Away the Blues

It is not happiness that makes us grateful.  It is gratefulness that makes us happy.  —Brother David Seindl-Rast In an effort to tackle my Covid blues, which have intensified at the prospect of another solo holiday, I was drawn to the concept that a gratitude practice could make me happier. As I plunged into the gratitude literature, [...]

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What?  A Second Lockdown!

Just when we were getting Covid under control, overnight the infection rates skyrocketed. With every state setting infection records, we all know what that means: another lockdown coming our way. Now that I’ve been through one lockdown, what have I learned to make the second one bearable? Experience has taught me to accept my erratic Covid [...]

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