Odd, isn’t it? When you’re 6 or 8 it feels like liberation to no longer have a Designated Nap Time (DNT) as part of the daily routine. When you’re 68, you come to see the DNT as one of life’s most profound little blessings.
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Today’s find: ‘attenchen.’
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Today’s find: Savory flavors
Two different times in the past couple of days, I found myself straying off some rather well-worn culinary paths.
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Today’s find: Mudjacking
They came without warning, the members of the mudjacking crew.
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Today’s find: Installation
Late-winter sunlight can play tricks, I learned on a recent visit to Laumeier Sculpture Park in southwest St. Louis County.
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Today’s find: Awestruck
An hour and a half into our family celebration, things were looking a little dicey.
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Today’s find: Jerome
Meditating on the apostles’ mountaintop experience, I keep finding myself being drawn underground – to the writing grotto of St. Jerome in Bethlehem.
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Today’s find: Wheels up
A year ago today, I was preparing to bid farewell to Jerusalem and the Holy Land.
Today’s find: Awake, again.
On this, the Feast of the Transfiguration, thought I might re-post a reflection I wrote a bit earlier this year…when we were blessed to visit the very spot where Jesus dazzled…even as some key disciples dithered. Here’s what I wrote back in mid-Lent:
Perhaps Peter should have traveled by taxi up to the top of Mount Tabor. That experience certainly would have kept him from falling asleep.
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Today’s find: Awake
Perhaps Peter should have traveled by taxi up to the top of Mount Tabor. That experience certainly would have kept him from falling asleep.
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Today’s find: Oddity
I did a double-take as soon as I saw the bottle.
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With Us Still 