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Desert of Solitude: Elevator Pitch
Desert of Solitude is for the dreamers and strivers. The people who may have achieved nothing, something or a great deal, but that “one thing” continues to elude them. What is it that you want from life, in life or through your life? What do you think you’re missing? What do you believe will complete your existence? It doesn’t matter. Whatever “it” is, you are enough for your life as you are now.
Fifty-five, Unemployed, Faking Normal by Elizabeth White
Bridgework is what we do in the meantime. Bridgework is what we do when we’re trying to figure out what is next. Bridgework is also letting go of this notion that our worth and our value depend on our income and our titles and our jobs.
Weekend Update: Tina Fey on Protesting After Charlottesville
Tina Fey: What can one person do?
Treaty-breakers: The Genocide of the First Peoples by the U.S. Government
Attempting to "reclaim our heritage" by examining the first crimes of the United States government that continue today. "I know of no other instance in history where a great nation has so shamefully violated its oath. Our country must forever bear the disgrace and suffer the retribution of its wrongdoing."
Devotional: Food for Thought
1 Corinthians 8:1-13 Read We know that there is only one God, the Father, who created everything, and we live for him. And there is only one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom God made everything and through whom we have been given life. However, not all believers know this. Some are accustomed to thinking ofContinue reading "Devotional: Food for Thought"
Poem: Everything & Nothing
Poem: Everything & Nothing
Quote: Justice grows out of recognition of ourselves in each other.
Stork Delivery, Part 3: A Tree & Its Fruit
We can hold our thoughts up to a greater truth. For me today, that Truth is the Word of God. In my youth, that truth was what I thought of myself – or who I knew myself to be.
Book Review: The Good Death: An Exploration of Dying in America
How is Neumann an authority on death? She concluded, "There is no good death, I now know.... But there is a good enough death.... knowing death makes facing it bearable.... And there is really one kind of bad death, characterized by the same bad facts: pain, denial, prolongation, loneliness.”