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finding space in my writing life

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I wanted a perfect ending. Now, I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity. Gilda Radner I first latched on to this quote in February 2008. At the time I added it to a post called “A Hiatus” on my first blog, Inspiring Readers and Writers. The post was titled “A… Read more finding space in my writing life →

{worship}: five minute friday

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Go I’m learning that in order to really shine, then my life — minute to minute — must be about worship. Worship is a lifeline to the Lord. Worship is about loving more and counting gratitudes and living for something beyond the comfort of earth.  Worship is a response to the love of a great big God. This response comes in many different forms. Sometimes it’s staying up late to read scripture and sometimes it’s going to bed early to be rested. Worship is speaking out and staying silent. Worship… Read more {worship}: five minute friday →

{last}: five minute friday

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Go Two weeks of school and summer is a fuzzy memory. The morning is a blur. The coffee is to go. Bites of oatmeal and blueberries happen at stop lights and train tracks. The days are packed and the afternoons slip away with homework and dinner and bath and books. The nights are filled with visits from friends and writing and art are left for last. But on Friday afternoon, after school, we make summer last. They jump into the pool and laugh and jump again and again and again.… Read more {last}: five minute friday →

{Lonely}: five minute friday

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Go How long has it been since I’ve been lonely? A decade maybe, or maybe more. I’m not sure. Yet I live in a world filled with lonely people. I step into classrooms filled with lonely people. I walk through the grocery store of lonely people. My digital footsteps walk around lonely people. And I wonder if maybe I even live in a home with lonely people. Lonely can stifle a person. One can be surrounded with beating hearts and bubbling laughter and still feel stark still solitude. Lonely strangles… Read more {Lonely}: five minute friday →