Category: relationships
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Wearing Costumes
It’s days until Halloween. Around our area there are so many homes decorated with witches and ghosts, pumpkins and devils. Cobwebs stretch from rooftops and across trees and one of our neighbors even has a set of shelves, five high, in the front yard that is filled with carved pumpkins, all lit and flickering after…
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The Ping Pong of Worries
What a strange moment in time this is, although maybe they are all strange and I am just seeing it more clearly right now. I really don’t know. Most of the time, I have my own set of worries that travel like an endless loop, cycling through my thoughts when I am not otherwise occupied.…
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The Micro and the Macro
It’s a juggling act we all wrestle with, I think. And, right now, with the world in chaos and many of us consumed by the news of war in Israel, it is hard to balance. When so many lives have been lost and so many more are at risk, how do we go forward, how…
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What Matters
I come to Sundays knowing that it’s the day I blog, the day I post something that I hope will resonate with someone else, perhaps even provide something of value, fleeting or not. The words come from my heart, my history and, of course, my reality. Today I sit with only an ache in my…
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Frankly My Dear
Likely one of the most recognizable lines from a book or film, right? “Frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn” served as Rhett Butler’s dismissal of Scarlet O’Hara in Gone With the Wind. I’ve been thinking about those words and thinking that it would be a gift if we could each use that line—and…
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Forgiveness
At this point in the year, as defined by the Jewish faith, we are in between Rosh Hashanah (literally the “head of the year”) and Yom Kippur (the day of atonement). During the past 10 days, often called “the 10 days of awe,” our opportunity is to examine the year we have had and to…
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Taking Stock
It is the Jewish New Year, and I’ve spent the last two mornings in holiday services. The familiar words and melodies are ingrained, they have been a part of my life since childhood and there is a comfort in that constancy and consistency. Much can and does change but these traditions of faith carry on.…
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Keeping Promises
In the fall of my final year of college I learned of a study abroad program that my college was offering. The first months of the semester would be spent in England and that was to be followed by two weeks in Paris and a week in Glasgow. I got very excited about the prospect…
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Reclaiming Ourselves
I’ve been doing some reading, and taking some workshops, on the chakra system. The chakras date back to the Vedas in around 1000 BCE and refer to a system of energy, disks of energy that connect up through your body. These seven key energy centers begin around your tailbone and move up at specific points…
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All Things
So many of us, myself totally included, feel a need to be all things to all people, all of the time. I say that without judgment or emotion, as just an observation on how I operate. Maybe it is socialization, growing up in an era where we were taught, especially as women, that we could…
With a Full Heart 