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the burden on my back…

April 30, 2012

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I’m shrinking. Already. It’s not from my bones compacting or the loss of connective tissue. I’m shrinking because of my slumpy slouchy forward reaching neck. My massage therapist and long time friend made a comment not long ago about my “dowager’s hump.” DOWAGER’S HUMP? REALLY? Oy. The condition I have is actually called “kyphosis” and […]

peaceful...

April 29, 2012

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Reblogged from Lyric Springs Retreat House: We have this place out in rural Tennessee outside of Franklin. Several years ago I built this little bench and placed it in this spot, expecting that this might be a place I'd come and sit, think, pray, breathe. I called it my "thoughtful spot" as a nod to […]

fotos: sea

April 27, 2012

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after training wheels…

April 25, 2012

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The training wheels came off Miles’ bike yesterday. It was a hard sell, convincing him it was time he tried to ride without them. The trouble is that he can’t ride with the other two boys on the country roads out here, the training wheels make it nearly impossible to get anywhere interesting.  In the […]

keep my tears…

April 24, 2012

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Keep my tears in your flask So that later when things are quiet and you are thirsty you will remember you have them you will remember that somewhere I am still crying sweetly weeping softly Later when things are quiet And you are thirsty drink them savoring the last briny aftertaste a reminder of the […]

harvesting the air…

April 23, 2012

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There is a wind farm on either side of I-65 near Lafayette, Indiana and each time I drive through that patch of interstate I pine for those giant turbines. One summer day, I vow, I will stop at a little place I’ve seen from the road, a picnic shelter overlooking a man made lake, surrounded […]

the real war on women…pt 2

April 18, 2012

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When I wrote this piece last week no matter how I tried I could not figure out what was missing. I knew something was there, straggling along on the side of the margin someplace but I could not put my finger on it. It was puzzling and I felt a little out of my league […]

The real war on women…

April 12, 2012

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“The War on Women” is big news these days. It’s “election cycle news.” It’s a tool used by the powerful people to herd us all emotionally in one direction or the other but that does not mean it isn’t real. I feel it. I have always felt the war because the war is always present in […]

Do or do not…there is no try

April 11, 2012

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I’m tired. All the time. Certainly it has something to do with parenting four rather “spirited” children or our move back to Chicago this past year or the strange and untethered nature of our homeschool life, those things would make anyone tired. All the time. There’s something else though, something more external, I think. I know […]

Why I (wish I could) wake early…

April 10, 2012

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I’ve been trying to get up early. I’ve never been a morning person, except, I admit that lately I’m discovering the merits of getting up before the noise in the house starts. I begin to wonder how much of my identity I’ve wrapped around this idea of being a night owl all these years. To […]

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metaphor

from the Latin. metaphora,
from Gk. metaphora "a transfer," especially of the sense of one word to a different word,
lit. "a carrying over," from metapherein "transfer, carry over," from meta- "over, across" (see meta-) + pherein "to carry, bear" (see infer).

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