Dear readers, I’d like to hear what you think of the format for this month’s update. My four headers were repurposed from that well-known wedding jingle: “Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue.” Let me know if this is a format you like and would enjoy seeing me continue. Since about half of my […]
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A nonbelieving friend recently attended a Catholic service for the first time since childhood and described herself as “enthralled with the long-forgotten but completely remembered beauty of the Mass.” She spoke of the gold vestments, candles, incense and back-and-forth singing, contrasting it with Protestant services she had experienced, which she perceived as “a cold, lifeless box.”
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I named this post “moments like bunny rabbits” simply because the photo above is my favorite of all the photos I’ve taken this month. And because moments really are like bunny rabbits–small, quivering when you hold them, prone to hop away rather quickly. And a farmer’s hands holding a bunny rabbit is maybe my favorite
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It’s been almost two months since I shared an update, and I feel like a lot has happened! We took a trip to Iowa to see our dear Grandma Dorothy: Every time we see her, it seems she is a little further into that aging place where one grows ever more detached from life and
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“But how did Mike Mulligan go to the bathroom?” asks Ramona Quimby in one of my favorite childhood books. (If you know the story of Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel, you understand why she asked.) It’s exactly what I wondered when reading God’s instructions in Leviticus for his priests’ consecration. “At the entrance of the
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