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This site is still finding its roots, and still growing. Maybe over time I’ll devise some clever method of organizing the material here. For now, though, here’s a list of all available posts, starting with the oldest. Most can be read in any order, although I do sometimes build on themes over several posts, or refer back to a previous entry in a later one. Feel free to dip in wherever you like.

  • ‘The Best Season of Your Life:’ A Pilgrim’s Path, Paved with Words
  • The Tale of the Useless Old Tree (Take 1)
  • At Home In Our Uncertainty: An Advent Reflection
  • Dark Night of the Solstice: Sojourns In the Valley of the Shadow
  • ‘This Beautiful Moon’: A Few Thoughts On Christmas Presence
  • ‘A Miracle to Contemplate’: Resolutions and Change
  • Giving Everything Its Due: Practicing Imperfection
  • The Benefits of Being a Beginner
  • The Ripple Effect and the Resonance of Life
  • Karma and Freedom: “Each Moment Is the Universe”
  • Repentance and Metanoia: A Lenten Reflection
  • With Only Our Grief to Guide Us: On Sorrow, Comfort, and Kindness
  • Today’s Menu – Eat it or Starve
  • Nouwen on Death, Detachment, and Freedom: ‘Nothing in this life to cling to’
  • ‘The Evanescence of Experience is Joy’: Social Media and the Hoards of Memory
  • Making the Most of the Time: A Mother’s Day Remembrance
  • ‘The most personal is the most universal’: Truth and Consequences in Blogging
  • Attending to the Meaning and Moments of Our Lives: Some Summer Reflections
  • ‘Everything we encounter is our life’: Finding Ourselves in the Food We Eat
  • ‘Instructions for living a life’: A Few Thoughts on the New Year
  • ‘In the time of your life, live’: Reflections in Memoriam
  • ‘To do something very splendid’: On the Power of Useless Old Stories
  • Accepting Our Vulnerability: Life In the Shadow of Death
  • ‘Listen to the river sing sweet songs’: Music and Healing, Down at the River House

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