I’ve been asking myself this as I seem stuck on my current project. This was going to be an easy write, just a fun book, nothing serious. I thought it would be equally fun to write, but instead it has taken a more serious turn than I had originally anticipated while dreaming it in my […]
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Ordinary Time – Season of Stability Why is it so hard to manage the ordinary times of our lives? When in crisis, preparing for that special occasion, or recovering from a tragedy, we know what to do. We keep busy because there’s so much to be done just to keep our head afloat. We long […]
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Ordinary Time – Season of Stability It seems that craft and craftsmen/women have gone out of style. They finish a poor second to art and artists. We don’t refer to the afghans we make or other hand-crafted articles as simply crafts any more but as works of art, crafts appearing second class to art. The […]
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Feast Day of Our Lady of Sorrows, September 15 With each relationship you add to your life, each child, grandchild, son-in-law or daughter-in-law, you add joy, but you also add the potential for sorrow. You rejoice when a child is born, but that is just the beginning. With each new step, each word spoken, they […]
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I’ve heard there are two types of writers: pantsers, those who write by the seat of their pants, and plotters, those who plot everything out in detail. I’m beginning to think there are two other types of writers: those who write faithfully every day, and those who write when the spirit moves them. (Could there […]
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Ordinary Time – Season of Stability Don’t believe everything you see. Appearances can be deceiving. There are the ones who exude grace and charm. They maneuver life’s highways with an aura of peace. Nothing, no crisis, no loss, seems to shake them for too long. There are the ones for whom life is a constant […]
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Ordinary Time – Season of Stability Life would never be the same, or so many insisted after 9/11. We walked around in a daze for weeks feeling our existence as a nation had been threatened, our sense of security taken away. We kept wondering, when would the other shoe drop? Where would the next terrorist […]
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Ordinary Time – Season of Stability Another day at the grindstone. A boring job, a boring routine. I can’t help but wonder … Does my life have meaning? Will I be remembered when I’m gone . . . and for what? Will the fact that I once walked the face of the earth make a […]
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Ordinary Time – Season of Stability (Author’s note – I wrote this reflection the year following 9/11. As I hunted down these pests, I found myself comparing them to terrorist cells. Just as it took months of being on guard against another infestation, I figured it would takes months of work to clear these groups […]
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Ordinary Time – Season of Stability Why can’t I just let Sunday be Sunday? A day of rest and relaxation. A day of prayer dedicated to God. A day with no agenda. It’s not that I don’t have plenty to do to fill the day. I resist the urge to bring work home. I resist […]
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