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On our recent trip to New York City, Travis and I visited Liberty Island and Ellis Island. Neither of us had ever been to either. It was quite moving. We were exhausted from an overnight flight, adjusting to 70% humidity,…

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STATING THE OBVIOUS

I wrote down this title a few weeks ago after my friend Sheila said it to me. I don’t remember the substance of our exchange. We were chatting in the front studio of Maple Street Dance Space. She said something…

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ON THE COB

Merriam-Webster, the dictionary, is one of THE BEST Instagram accounts that I follow. It’s witty, sassy, and informative. They offer a vocabulary-building word-of-the-day.  Often, they share interesting etymological tidbits [did you know that “hoosegow,” the old wild-west term for a…

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BUTTERFLY EFFECTS

Recently, I read a short piece about a woman who performed a wing transplant on a living monarch butterfly in Topeka, Kansas. When this butterfly emerged from her chrysalis, it was plain that one of her wings had not formed…

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SOME SLACK

I’ve been noticing (again) how deeply uncomfortable I am with empty space. This week, I’ve been vexed by empty space in my calendar. It’s totally neurotic, but I feel an urgency, a compulsion, to fill it up. I worry that…

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STRIKE

Okay, so, I’m not real sporty. But I got thinking about how a strike in bowling means knocking all the pins down, but a strike in baseball means a miss. Weird. Strike has a lot of very different connotations, positive…

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IN COMMON

It was really special to have my sister and niece visit me in Albuquerque this past week. My niece, Mary, comes regularly and it’s always great. My sister, Robin, however, doesn’t travel much and has never been here in the…

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ALTERNATIVE

A number of weeks ago, I responded to a call from someone who was interested in Bosque Center for Spiritual Living. He and his wife were looking for a place to study the Science of Mind. I called him back,…

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COMPROMISING POSITIONS

Recently, I learned the Spanish word for “engaged” — comprometido. One of the things I like about studying another language is that it helps me to see my native tongue in a fresh way. Comprometido struck me in that it…

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MOTHER NATURE

This week, I spent a lot of time scouring collections of poetry and pouring through my usual go-to books for Sunday readings. I searched online for hours, googling: “Mother’s Day poems… SHORT Mother’s Day poems… Mother’s Day poems that DON’T…

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