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The Joy of Waiting
Waiting is all around us, if we stop and pay attention. That’s one reason I love this time of year. We’re not used to waiting. A few days ago a Wal-Mart employee on Long Island was stampeded to death by impatient shoppers. As a child, I associated Advent with the stiff, single-sheeted....
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The Evidence of Things Not Seen
One morning about 12 years ago, I saw a boy standing in front of a door. The door was made from glossy, golden wood with elaborate, ornate shapes of flowers and vines and animal faces. The boy wore a blue windbreaker and held his hands clenched in fists. I didn’t know his name, or why he stood there. I’d never seen him before....
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Intimacy, Fear, and Thin Places
The first time I went to church as an adult just because it was Sunday, I sat in a back pew and kept my arms crossed and criticized everything I saw. The words in the prayer book (such outlandish claims!); the hokey quilted banner hanging above the altar (such tacky taste!); the friendliness of the fellow parishioners....
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Just Do It
The question is rarely if ever an existential one. The person asking is not particularly interested in the blend of childhood sensibility and incident, of curiosity and narcissism and ease at telling lies, that led me to write—as opposed, say, to practice law or torture small animals....
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Outta My Hair
Three words jump out at me this morning. DREAM IMAGINE CREATE. Placed as they are in all caps and the imperative tense, these words command, order, invite. They seem like good words to start the work week. Today D starts his classes at university; today I’m back at the keyboard after a weekend on retreat. At sunset tonight....
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Issue 72
Memoir by Lauren Winner, Poetry by James Harpur, Art by Guy Chase and Adrian Wiszniewski
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