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As my dad held the spinach artichoke lavash up to his mouth last Sunday, he might as well have been eating one of his farmer boots after a slosh through the cattle lot. A meat and potatoes guy, he was hesitant to try the meatless entree I’d ordered for our father’s day lunch. To his…
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Remember the Sabbath and keep it holy. You have six days each week for your ordinary work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath day of rest dedicated to the Lord your God. . . For in six days the Lord made the heavens, the earth, the sea and everything in them; but on the…
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Birds gossip in the trees in our front yard. Two wide maples cast huge shade across green grass and the gray cement made up of driveway and sidewalk. We three sit in this shade with fat pastel chalks in hand. The black concrete begs, a canvas. Grandma makes art: a face, a flower, the word…
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Cool water prickles around my ankles and calves–sharply contrasting the sticky air I’m swimming in from the knee up. I hold my little yellow-polka-dot-ruffle swimming buddy as she curves her neck to the right, looking down at the water, skimming her fingers across the surface. My legs adjust to the water’s coolness, and I muster…
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“Sure, sounds great,” I say. . . and mean the total opposite. If I told you to picture a complainer, you probably wouldn’t cue up a mental picture of someone smiling with her head nodding. We grumblers can be hard to spot. Lately, the silent grumbles are sticking to me like summer cockelburs on socks.…
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“I was crying because I can’t get this shadow to stick.” When Peter Pan, green tights and all, says this line to Wendy Moira Angela Darling in that magical nursery with a huge window, I’m hooked. I loved Neverland, Tinkerbell and even Captain Hook, but even as a little kid I was most curious about…
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I woke up with my hair and guts all in a buch. Today was the day. I trudged toward my laptop and the conference prep work I’d been putting off for weeks. I didn’t even know the retreat participants, but something inside me was all wound up wanting to create THE presentation. I sat at…
Evi Wusk 