Week 2, Day 6: Quiet Spirit
“In dark times, we fall back on those practices that a lifetime of practice has taught us. When words fail or fail to come, meaning and comfort spring from the most ordinary, elemental means: our work, small observances. This is the quiet spirit of...
Week 1, Day 5: Sleep
Four little flames are all aflicker in my Advent candle arrangement this evening. I didn’t realize when I hatched the idea of lighting a candle every day of Advent, that I might actually be able to relight the previous night’s candles so that on Saturday...
Slow-Down Solutions for Singles: Glasses On
Over the weekend, I slipped away from puppy care (read: indentured servitude!) just long enough to go to church then to the gym to run a couple of miles on the treadmill. Since Tilly came to live with me, I haven’t had the time to run as usual, and so it was a...
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