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Oranges
Kathleen Norris writes about her niece (in her book Acedia and Me) . When her niece was three, Kathleen’s brother would drive her to day care in the morning, and her mother, who worked as a stock-broker and financial planner, would pick her up in the afternoon. She always brought an [...]
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New Year
It is a New Year.
Per usual, I didn’t get around to making any resolutions. I find it sufficient to dust off my list from last year, and work on the ones I never got around to. Plenty of folk cover the gamut for me on 43things.com. A few I liked this [...]
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Lionel Train Set
Garrison Keillor tells the story about a young boy who wanted a Lionel Train Set for Christmas.
The father, of a family of seven, was in the hospital and unable to work. The mother, worried about money did her best to prepare the children, “I’m sorry, but we won’t be able to have [...]
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To wait
For the Christian faith, it is Advent, waiting for the birth of the Prince of Peace. With its requisite spat over whether we use Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays. What a worthy debate, as we jostle one another, both hands loaded with shopping bags from Macys, Nordstrom [...]
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Running
Anybody can find something they can do
–and do well.
I like to show people
you can either stop trying,
or you can pick yourself up
and keep going.
It is just more fun
to keep going. Ben Comen
Ben Comen holds the record as the slowest cross-country runner in the United States of America. On a typical 3.1 mile [...]
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Touch
To touch can be to give life. Michelangelo
An eleven-year-old girl lived with her grandmother. Labeled “different,” adjustment to school was not easy. Her mother was not a reliable presence. As if life is not tough enough, her father had been recently killed. She knew him only vaguely, but not well and had [...]
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Healing love
In September, New Yorker magazine featured an article by Johnathan Safran Foer (who wrote a novel about a boy who lost his father in the twin towers tragedy) talking about the tragedy of 9/11.
“Is there anyone who hasn’t played out the nightmare of having been [...]
Purple dragon