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Dec 8, 2010

Christmas in Verse

L.L. Barkat

This morning I told Michelle DeRusha I was glad she included the Stargazer lilies in her post. Their presence communicated something poignant and deep about her wider experience of grief and...

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Jul 12, 2010

Roots

laura boggess

I thought about Mary Ainsworth when I read Julia Cameron’s chapter on Roots in The Right to Write this week. Mary Ainsworth is the developmental psychologist who, in the 1960s and 70s, conducted...

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Jul 5, 2010

I Eat with My Eyes

laura boggess

I drive with the windows down and the air conditioning on. The sun burns through the windshield but it is not enough to be cool--I must let the breeze ripple my hair, feel the wildness of strands...

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Jun 28, 2010

Wanted: Friendly Reader

laura boggess

We must protect our creativity. We must choose readers who read with love.

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May 24, 2010

A Letter To Myself

laura boggess

Dearest Laura, When you tuck your boys in at night, you remember; how you would slide under covers and wait for mother’s soft hands. You hold on to that child, long for her sweet smelling skin....

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May 3, 2010

Invite the Muse to Tea

laura boggess

My muse is not happy with me. She has caught wind of all the niceties Julia Cameron lavishes on her writer-self to care for Inspiration. In our reading of The Right to Write this week, Cameron...

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Feb 15, 2010

Strangely Warmed

laura boggess

Week two of book club discussion for John D. Beckett's Loving Monday: Succeeding in Business Without Selling Your Soul

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Dec 7, 2009

Sky-cradle

laura boggess

One of my former patients used to tell me about a recurring dream that he had when he took a certain medication. The patient, who was a quadriplegic, not only was able-bodied in the dream, but he...

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Nov 30, 2009

What's In A Name?

laura boggess

Book club discussion on chapter eight of Gerald May's The Wisdom of the Wilderness: Experiencing the Healing Power of Nature. Does the naming process promote subjugation?

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Apr 10, 2009

RAP: Eating Our Words on Good Friday

L.L. Barkat

What might we hear if we quietly sip a coffee for just 10 minutes, put the news aside, maybe even sit still outdoors where distraction falls away? Might we "taste and see that the Lord is good"?

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Add to the Beauty

During the past several days, I have been reflecting on various implications of a passage in Ezekiel 41 in which God reveals his plans for beautiful decorations of the temple in Jerusalem. I began... Read More +