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Isolation: Days 6-9
Apparently there’s a limit to how many nights in a row I can stay up late writing blog posts, even with the opportunity to sleep in every day. (That limit seems to have been five.) But now I’ve had a...
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Isolation: Week Two
You know it, I know it: I was never going to last long at daily blogging. But maybe I can do weekly entries about our lives during this time of coronavirus isolation? It’s clear now, anyway, that we...
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Past Everybody Else’s Bedtime (Isolation: Weeks 3 and 4)
I don’t know what to tell you about the past two weeks – weeks Three and Four of our coronavirus isolation. I was going to tell you about my Lenten sacrifice, the one where I gave up wasting time and...
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Your Moment Does Not Define You
Have you ever seen a flock of starlings? They fly in concert, soaring and swooping together to create the most amazing shapes, like some sort of fluid sculpture. They look like waves, or leaves on the...
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The Novel Normal (Isolation: Week 5)
On Sunday I drove for the first time in nearly four weeks. It felt strange. My body was unused to moving along the earth at high speed, cradled in a chair of fake leather, carried in a machine of...
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My Mild Dystopia (Isolation: Weeks 6 and 7)
In thinking over the past two weeks, all these images flash to my mind – moments that resemble something normal, but aren’t quite. They’re off. They’re distorted. They’re like glancing at some mildly...
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Litany of Sadness (Isolation: Week 8)
Can I tell you how sad I am? There’s so much to be sad about these days. There’s so much to push your shoulders downward, to sink that sorrow deep down into your bones. The news. Fear. Conflict. Blame....
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Focus on Him
I’ve been quiet here, maybe for too long. My mind has been full-to-brimming of thoughts about George Floyd’s death and its aftermath, but they have all seemed insufficient. This will be insufficient...
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Beginnings and Ends (an Announcement)
I thought about calling this post “Ends and Beginnings,” but where’s the fun in that? Because really, I’m here to announce a beginning to you. It’s an overdue announcement, too – of a beginning that...
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Digesting Dobbs
I have not yet absorbed the enormity of Friday’s Supreme Court decision overturning Roe vs. Wade. Or maybe I just don’t feel its enormity the way I might have expected to. Until recently, I thought it...
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