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Watching What We Say

A couple of months ago at a conference I was privileged to hear former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams.  The conference was aimed chiefly at

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Steady On

There’s nothing like moving to give you concrete evidence of how much stuff you own. We moved from a rental to our own home and

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Prayer and Politics

Give the king your justice, O God… May he defend the cause of the poor of the people, give deliverance to the needy, and crush

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Legacy Sorting the KonMari Way

I couldn’t even watch one whole episode. The first season of the new Marie Kondo television series, Tidying Up with Marie Kondo, dropped on Netflix

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Immigration

I snapped this shot at the Somalia exhibit at St. Paul’s Minnesota History Center. I wanted a picture of the plow, that wooden contraption in

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Shoes on my feet

I’ve learned that New Year’s resolutions are not my jam. One year, probably when I was especially enjoying the drinks at the party, I declared

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Resolved

Resolved is a curious word, etymologically related to solvent, and, of course, solution, as in resolution. The original meaning had to do with loosening, and that meaning is still easy to

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