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Beloved Community,

The Way Back Home

September 9th, 2023

While I'm still trying to wrap my mind around the collection of years (20?!) since I was a college student, making reunion weekend plans with my old pals has me...

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Beloved Community,

Tending the Roots

September 1st, 2023

As I have attempted to become a half-decent plant parent over these adulting years, I figured that in order to shed my “accidentally kill all the plants that ...

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Beloved Community,

The Connective Tissue of Blessing

August 26th, 2023

Last summer while Josh and I were in Spain en route to our Camino de Santiago starting point, we were stuck in the middle of a long day of travel in our longest...

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Beloved Community,

Every Accomplishment is Rooted in a Practice

August 19th, 2023

Thanks in part to the generosity of Amy Mac and Roper who shared with me a bounty of tomatoes from this week’s older adult tomato pick up, I decided that a sa...

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Beloved Community,

“Life is so beautiful. Life is so hard.”

August 12th, 2023

Several years ago, when I began contemplating what would “make my heart sing,” in the words of the National Clergy Renewal Program’s sabbatical applicatio...

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Beloved Community,

Gratitude Tethers

August 1st, 2023

When the dear old dad of my oldest friend Anna gave me a hard time last week for turning the ripe old age of 42 -- "that sure sounds like an age when you'd know...

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