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The Limitless Household
I attend a small Catholic church, St. Joseph’s, and over the years, I’ve noticed something about my fellow congregants. These normally reserved people cry. Once, the postmaster wept all through mass. Afterward, another man, the manager of a discount store on Water Street, put his....
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To Write
I find creative writing difficult. This is in contrast to my professional writing as a consultant, which I find, after twenty five years, relatively straightforward: if you’ve written one foundation report or federal grant, you’ve pretty much written them all. But real writing....
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Famous Writer
I was walking down a concourse in the Philly airport when I looked up to see the Famous Writer staring down at me. Actually at first glance I was sure I was looking at the British actor, Bill Nighy. But it was not. It was him, a well-known literary writer who....
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Spiritus Mundi
Recently, I attended an “Eco-Christianity” class at an area congregation. It was not for me. The minister who led it was well-intentioned, trying to bring the sacred alive. A dozen or so of us attended the first meeting—a couple who ran an organic farm, an elderly....
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The Turning
Until a couple of years ago, my neighbor, Bea, tapped her maples. She’s getting on now and boiling down the sap is a lot of work. But some people still do it. It’s a welcome sign of the season’s turning, which I feel everywhere now, a rhythm under the remaining snow and ice. This morning I heard....
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Memoir by Lauren Winner, Poetry by James Harpur, Art by Guy Chase and Adrian Wiszniewski
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