Ordinary Time – Season of Stability Labor Day weekend has arrived. Time for the last splurge of summer. While summer officially lasts until September 22, for many this is considered the unofficial end of the summer vacation season. Children go back to school making family vacations impossible to schedule. Even though my children are no […]
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“Rain, rain, go away, come again some other day,” we used to chant as children, longing to go outside and play on a rainy day. I still say that chant when cloudy, rainy days follow upon each other for more than two days at a time. I can take one or two days of rain. […]
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Ordinary Time – Season of Stability Most of us lead lives of quiet desperation, or so says Thoreau. One day spills into another day without cease. Time never stands still for all our efforts to slow it down or speed it up. We work at the same boring job, live in the same boring suburb, […]
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Ordinary Time – Season of Stability Sometimes the best part of family vacations is coming home. Back to familiar territory with familiar faces and friends. Back to the expected, the routine, to places and people you can count on. Children, outside of their normal structure and support system of friends can be outright terrorists with […]
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Ordinary Time – Season of Stability So often we equate the dark times of our lives to times of crisis and loss. I don’t know about that. Sometimes the truly dark times are the times when life just goes on, day by day, in a routine fashion. You feel stuck, stagnant, like water in a […]
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Ordinary Time – Season of Stability My home is a work in progress. I can never completely leave it alone. I have projects half done, lying about as a reminder to finish them. No sooner do I finish one project than I begin another. I have plans to take me into the next decade and […]
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Ordinary Time – Season of Stability Today there is a complete solar eclipse. I remember there being an eclipse when I was a child. My mother had us stay inside with the curtains closed lest we fail to resist the urge to look up and watch the event and end up blind. I wonder about […]
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Ordinary Time – Season of Stability Stuck in traffic, inching along making no progress. You’ve made plans but now you’ll be late or not even make it at all. Sometimes life is like that. Stuck in one place, bottled in, unable to move. You feel like you’re getting nowhere fast. Plans you’ve made have fallen […]
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Can a white woman convincingly write from a black woman’s perspective? And if so, should she? I’ve been thinking about these questions as I ponder an idea I have for a book in my Dancing through Life Series. The series is about women trying to find balance in their life, finding ways to not just […]
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Ordinary Time – The Feast of the Assumption Woman among the stars, radiant in her glory. A woman in her fullest potential. That is Mary. So loved as a mother that she merits a special place in heaven, among the stars, the sky as her gown, the stars her adornments. She is the crowning glory […]
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