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They are angels among us.They are the heart and soul of our children’s education. They are the ones we count on to lead the next generation forward, and…
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We came seeking the star.Just a few of us showing up on the open prairie, our silhouettes backlit by a ruby-rimmed horizon and the deepening hues of a…
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I’m reinventing Thanksgiving, which is not easy to do.Especially since this will be our 40th straight year to host Thanksgiving for family and…
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The sanctuary was silent.The doors shuttered since March, so I have not been inside our church since. Because of the pandemic, we are worshiping online or…
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Once upon a time, not so very long ago, I sat alone in a Yosemite forest and wept.My husband and I had been hiking to a major grove of sequoias and were…
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It’s been a long time since I have seen the fireflies in such profusion blinking their love light into the gloaming, but perhaps, I was just not…
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It’s the hugs I miss most.Joyous bear hug greetings, gentle squeezes of love, and lingering arm-wrapped farewells. All have disappeared like a loose kite…
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“Come look!” announced my husband on an early spring morning over a month ago. “I have a surprise!”I followed him out to the backyard, and there rising up…
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The cardinal comes at dawn.His spiky silhouette backlit against a copper sky, the bare branches of our backyard woods his amphitheatre.He is the first one…
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The spellers were nervous. And who could blame them? Approximately two dozen 4th and 5th graders lined up on a stage with a gymnasium filled with their…