Category: reflections
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I Don’t Want to Have Just Visited This World
Sometimes a beautiful and unexpected path begins with something as ordinary as clicking on an email. A couple of weeks ago, an email from Grateful Living landed in my inbox inviting me to an online workshop called Grateful Aging: The Wisdom of New Beginnings. At 57, the subject of aging interests me for more than…
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Raising a Lantern for Dolly Parton 🏮✨
Dolly Parton died today, and there are some people whose deaths feel like the dimming of something that has simply always been there. Dolly was one of those people. She was, quite simply, a lightmaker. Dolly knew poverty. She knew sexism. She knew what it meant to have people underestimate her intelligence because of how…
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What Happens Next
When things don’t go according to plan. Our weekend had gone remarkably well. We had watched the Detroit Tigers win two games against the A’s in Sacramento. The McGonigoggles had survived their inaugural field testing. Kevin McGonigle had even hit a home run during his first at bat while we were wearing them. And then,…
