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Falling Leaves, Filled Donuts, and Fierce Grace
Kobi and I began reading Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times by Katherine May after I came across it on the How to be a Better Human Podcast. The host, Chris Duffy, read the following excerpts: However it arrives, wintering is usually involuntary, lonely, and deeply painful.Yet it’s also inevitable. We like to imagine…
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The Second Charcoal Fire
Week 8 – Things are Starting to Get Real
I am not discussing politics here – at least not right here. Perhaps it is a discussion for another post (probably not),…
Week 7 – The Arrow of Focus…or The Focus of God…or Why I Deleted All Social Media and News Apps From My Phone
Sitting in my Thinking Chair* yesterday morning, I deleted every social media, news app, apps whose last use I cannot recall, and…
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Falling Leaves, Filled Donuts, and Fierce Grace
Kobi and I began reading Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times by Katherine May after I came across it on the How to be a Better Human Podcast. The host, Chris Duffy, read the following excerpts: However it arrives, wintering is usually involuntary,…
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Writers & Reading
Understanding Cormac McCarthy by Steven Frye (2009)
Acknowledgements “I have no desire to speculate on the behavior of a living author who in recent years has emerged as one…
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Weyward by Emilia Hart (2023)
Hart, Emilia. Weyward: A Novel – Hardcover. St. Martin’s Press, NY, 2023.- Audio. Narrated by Aysha Kala, Helen Keeley, and Nell Barlow, 20230307.…