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Mother’s Autumn Plunge

Dear, sweet mother friends of mine (and men, too, who happen to be overworked and exhausted), guess what?  Karen Maezen Miller of Momma Zen: Walking the Crooked Path of Motherhood is coming here, to Rochester, MN, to give a one-day retreat in October.  [You’ll know how much Karen’s words have meant to me in the […]

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Questioning Religion

More thoughts on David Dark’s The Sacredness of Questioning Everything.  Previous thoughts are here. Dark defines “religion” a little differently than I think most of us refer to it as, and that is as a “calling out.”  Meaning, it’s how you live your life, day to day.  So, religion can be anything, not just…well, the […]

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Questioning God

So, I’ve begun the book I mentioned yesterday, The Sacredness of Questioning Everything by David Dark. Can I just say he starts off with a bang…and I was hooked after the first page?  I hope Dark’s okay with me quoting long passages from the book.  You need to read this book if you’re continually wondering […]

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Questioning Everything

Isn’t that a fab title?  It’s my next read, so stay tuned. In the meantime, while you’re doodling and fiddling your thumbs, waiting with bated breath for my analysis, you may watch this new fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants Animoto video covering Liliana’s birthday celebration from yesterday.  You really have to use the site’s music (because of copyright issues), […]

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Thank You

I can’t help but think of Liliana’s birth mother today.  I want to thank her for the gift of her daughter.  I want to tell her all the splendid things she’s missing  (not in a nah-nah-nah way, but in a genuine, “Oh, she’s beautiful and brilliant and funny…I wish you could see!”). We’ve finished our […]

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