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Category Archives: Living as Apprentices
A View of Life as We Wish it to Be
This blog now contains 871 posts. Once in a while, I re-post a favorite of mine, hoping that it is, or will become, a favorite of yours. This blog was first published on Nov. 22, 2017. Merry Christmas! About a … Continue reading
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A Smaller Life
“Today, at age 76 — as I weather the autumn of my own life — I find nature a trustworthy guide. It’s easy to fixate on everything that goes to ground as time goes by: the disintegration of a relationship, … Continue reading
“It Wasn’t So Bad!”
Did you ever wish you could recognize holy moments in time to live fully in them? I had an opportunity to do just that this week in the most unlikely place – the flu clinic at the doctor’s office. As … Continue reading
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The Battle of the Newspaper
It’s only a thin daily paper, maybe 12-15 pages many of which are filled with ads. But for years, I have faithfully read the Holland Sentinel – when it was not so good journalism and now that it is pretty … Continue reading
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Tagged detachment, Holland Sentinel, soul-training exercises
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Sit and Enjoy the Stillness
“When productivity is our main way of overcoming self-doubt, we are extremely vulnerable to rejection and criticism and prone to inner anxiety and depression. Productivity can never give the deep sense of belonging we crave. The more we produce, the … Continue reading
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Tagged Adam: God's Beloved, Henri Nouwen, L'Arch, productivity
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Moving Days
So . . . once again we have moved. It wasn’t far – about a tenth of a mile from one building to another, from an upper level apartment to a ground floor apartment, but it took all the energy … Continue reading
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Countering Donald J. Trump’s Fantasies and Lies
Even passing attention to the news media will make us realize that life everywhere in 2019 is hard. If you, like me and many of my friends, watch, listen to or read a lot about American politics and international disasters … Continue reading
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Tagged Donald Trump's lies and fantasies, G7 Summit, Lawrence O'Donnell, Michael Mann, The Last Word
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