In the moment, it seemed like the tiniest of graces – a blessing we did not even realize we desired.
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Today’s find: Innocents
If there’s an upside to a diminished sense of hearing, I suppose it’s this: One is able to tune out peripheral babble…and focus more intently on the profound.
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Today’s find: Winter’s light
Ever notice?
This time of year, the stars seem especially bright.
It’s almost as if the sky is clearer…and the heavens are closer to earth than they are in the summertime.
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Today’s find: Towering
We waited in silence ten years or more for the bell to ring. Then in the pre-dawn darkness of a late-Advent morning it tolled, at a notably non-liturgical hour.
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Today’s find: Buzzards & burros
I’ve been inside The Joint often enough not to ever expect an inviting welcome. But yesterday’s approach was something else.
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Today’s find: Hope
“Well, this is weird,” I said to myself…because there was absolutely no one else in the room with me, watching a recent World Cup match on TV.
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Today’s find: Obscured
In my haste, I was sorely tempted to do something truly foolish the other morning.
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Today’s find: Static cling
To their delight, the Grandsons took in an unexpected lesson in static electricity the other day.
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Today’s find: Kintsugi
Perhaps not surprisingly, our matriarch’s 95th birthday celebration morphed into a time of “family archeology” the other day.
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Today’s find: Notice
For a moment or two, I had the disturbing feeling that I’d been forced to time-travel – transported against my will to “caveman days.”
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Tags: 32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time, Notice, Ozarks, Power outage, Sadduccess
With Us Still 