A child said, What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands; …I guess it is the handkerchief of the Lord,A scented gift and remembrancer designedly dropped,Bearing the owner’s name someway in the corners, that wemay see and remark, and say Whose? Walt Whitman, from “Song of Myself” Small gifts, simple joys, everyday beauties that we often fail to notice. These are the handkerchiefs of God. These are the moments when we can choose to remember that we are loved, blessed, held by the gentle hand of the Almighty. The way the afternoon light slants through the windowpane…
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Hello again, readers! Here we are, a few weeks into the new year, and perhaps the shine has already begun to wear off a little for some of you. I know that we are now over a week past what is now dubbed “Quitter’s Day”, the day when most average folks give up those fabulous New Year’s resolutions they made with such high hopes. I am also aware than many people who have slightly more realistic expectations don’t make resolutions but do set some time aside to reflect on ways to improve themselves going forward. In recent years, I have…
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Dear Reader, I do not quite know how to begin a post here after such a long absence. I can give no eloquent explanation for why I suddenly stopped writing blogs for over a year. I just got busy doing other things, I suppose, and was perhaps feeling a bit uninspired. But lately I have been longing to get back here and write again, so I decided to make writing regular posts (hopefully weekly!) one of my projects for 2025. I have a lot of ideas for topics, but first, I think a general life update is in order! Six…
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This year started out much like any other for me, though perhaps with less anticipation and expectation than most. Call me jaded, but I had no illusions that the world would suddenly return to pre-COVID, pre-election peacefulness and predictability once we flipped the page on the calendar. No, instead, as much as I may yearn to go back to what seemed be better days, I knew that the outside world and culture would continue on in much the same way it has been. And this knowledge did not encourage me one single bit. In fact, to tell the truth, I’ve…