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The Soft Underbelly
Every morning as my wife and I gently start our day with a cup of coffee in bed, our rambunctious feline Jazzy joins us for some together time. She has a few dry multi-grain cheerios (hand-fed, one by...
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Going Home
Old tin roof, leaves in the gutter A hole in the screen door big as your fist, and flies on the butter Mamaw baking sugar cookies… Heard her holler from the kitchen ‘which one of you youngin’s wants to...
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Growth Spurts
I was acutely aware of my growth spurts as a kid because they usually involved pain. In my younger years, I’d often wake up in the middle of the night crying from the bone-deep aches in my legs,...
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Blended Worship
I wish our world was better at encouraging blended worship – time spent in deep gratitude in a way that combines self-selected practices from any organized religious, spiritual, natural, or other...
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Sacred Ingredients
Fresh rosemary sprigs sprawl in deep green disarray across my cutting board. Each cut I make into their surprisingly sturdy structure releases a waft of bold floral earthiness. I gently strip the fresh...
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What Inclusion Feels Like
I went clothes shopping with my wife this past weekend, faced with the daunting task of finding me an outfit for a black tie wedding. After trying on umpteen “looks like I’m playing dress-up… badly”...
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Dusk
You ask me, Dusk, As you gently wring the light from day Dripping with gold of tomorrow’s promise, Do you believe in magic my child? Do you believe? And I nod, melted, speechless, wishing I had the...
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The Soft Sweet Gray
Writing on this cozy rainy summer morning, I was joined as usual by my precious all-gray cat, Gitter (no l). She brought her sweet gentleness over to me in one big fluffy ball of soft purring fur and a...
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Shoulder the Sun
Needing to fill my creative well this morning, I grabbed my camera and headed for Fairmount Park in Philly. As I walked along the Schuylkill River, I noticed the placement of the sun coming up looked...
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External Evidence of Internal Changes
Changes are happening in the Word Stew kitchen. We’re taking our alphabet stew pots, poetry mixing bowls, and essay bakeware to the OutWrite Living kitchen to do all our blog writing over there from...
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