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food: the (un)process
A couple of friends who’ve been on my bloggy list from way back are taking a challenge this month. Marianne and Cherie each signed on to try making it through October eating, more or less, only whole foods. This challenge came from Andrew Wilder at Eating Rules. I am nearly sated just browsing their pictures: … Continue reading
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scents of quiet
Scooping blue tortilla chips into my sandwich bag, I fumbled a couple. As they fractured near my shoe, I admitted to myself some apprehension. Soon my friend Kathy would arrive, and I would climb into her pickup, and we would go hiking in lovely scenery, as we often have before (see here, here, and here). … Continue reading
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attack cat and snookums
I suppose I should import a boxer photo for this post, or maybe upload pictures of my abrased ankle, but, either way, they wouldn’t quite capture my two stories, so I’ll just launch into them. 1. There were two boxers in our back yard. Not the type you see on TV in a ring wearing … Continue reading
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over summer
In late June in Colorado, landscape raised itself, a snowy rim against city, the cusp of a rock-realm carelessly straining space. In early July at the local amphitheater, a curly-haired symphony conductor flourished in his sheer joy. The orchestra responded, each person and instrument a striking synergy. There were two vocalists. One, a diminutive man … Continue reading
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six months to insanity
Not for nothing did I change my blog’s subtitle several months ago. What a new road my life’s been on since February. When this year started, I considered myself a Radical Biblicist. Now things are different. Not entirely; the journey has been leading this direction, as I now see it, all along. Here’s how I … Continue reading
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engineer’s shadow in a dress
With my husband on a Sunday afternoon, still in church clothes, I ride up to Solar Heights, where there’s a television translator. I say, “Wish I had my camera.” He says, “You can use my phone.” I get directions on how to use it. Then I capture him unloading odds and ends of foliage he … Continue reading
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pointers
Did you know some spiders love lavender bushes? They learn to hide deep within the slender stems. Their eight crafty eyes scan for a fuzzy abdomen, a whzzz of wings. They creep nearer, and then… I didn’t have a clue about such scenarios, until I was standing in the sun a couple weeks ago, on … Continue reading
Posted in disturbing, interesting, life, more to this than meets the eye
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from the third story
A young man named Eutychus, sitting at the window, sank into a deep sleep as Paul talked still longer. And being overcome by sleep, he fell down from the third story and was taken up dead. ~Acts 20:9~ People come together around stories about redemption. There’s something at our core that responds to one well-told, … Continue reading
Posted in life, religion or faith or church
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anniversary band
The uphill dirt road narrowed to a trail as I puffed alongside Tim. His purposeful strides have never been easy to match. “I was thinking about,” puff, puff, “something regarding what so-and-so said,” puff, “and how it relates to this-and-that area of our lives.” Whoosh, arm-swings, batting away of spider web. Our hike through forest … Continue reading
Posted in life, thankfulness, yum
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clattering over the depths
In the someday to arrive (the final age, if you will), I wonder if, rather than becoming instantly flawless, I’ll simply know it’s okay to make mistakes. Some activities in this age-that-continues include goofs that don’t bother me much. Like when I go fishing with my dad. Friday began early, the plan being that Dad … Continue reading
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