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Category Archives: Inklings
I Like You Just the Way You Are – A Lesson from Mr. Rogers
“It’s you I like, It’s not the things you wear, It’s not the way you do your hair– But it’s you I like The way you are right now, The way down deep inside you– Not the things that hide … Continue reading
Giving Thanks for the Little Things
“Enjoy the little things for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.” Robert Brault Thanksgiving makes me introspective about all my blessings. I will never be rich. I will never be president. My name … Continue reading
How Do We Change the World?
“You write in order to change the world, knowing perfectly well that you probably can’t, but knowing that literature is indispensable to the world…which changes according to the way people see it. And if you can alter, even by a … Continue reading
Freeing the Butterflies, A Granddaughter’s Lesson
In the bulb there is a flower; in the seed, an apple tree; In cocoons, a hidden promise: … Continue reading
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Tagged Alice in Wonderland, Butterfly, Caterpillar, Cocoon, freeing the imagination, Garden, God, Imagination, Lepidoptera, Liriodendron tulipifera, Mad Hatter, Monarch, Natalie Sleeth, Pupa, White Rabbit, Writing
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A Different Angle – Fall and the Quality of Light
When I was growing up every child in school counted down the days to summer vacation. At summer’s end, we took up our busy lives once more, starting a new school year, a new chance at learning and relationships. Even … Continue reading
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Tagged Autumn, autumn leaves, Cape Cod, Cape Cod Canal, fall, light, Marianne Williamson, perspectives on life, refraction, Season, seasons of our lives, September, summer, sunset
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Down in the Valley, the Valley So Low…
I have been through the valley of weeping The valley of sorrow and pain But the “God of all comfort,” was with me To comfort, to hold and sustain. As the earth needs clouds and sunshine, Our souls need both … Continue reading
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Tagged angels, Baca Valley, C.S. Lewis, depression, God, Great Divorce, Heaven, in the valley of the shadow, Israel, loss, Pain, Social work, social workers, the hand of the angel, Valley
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The Critical Beauty of Editing
Claude Debussy said “Music is found in the space between the notes.” I went looking for this quote and had heard it used to describe Miles Davis’ music, but found out it actually was original to Debussy. If you have … Continue reading
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