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family life, spiritual life

At home with winter

December 3, 2020December 3, 2020 JOY journal

I have pretty boots, but these are the ones that get the job done. I will keep them until they disintegrate. Come winter, a war-weary towel lines a spot in the dining room that lies close enough to the front door to be practical but keeps the snowy boots that gather there out of sight.… Continue reading At home with winter

Tagged COVID, coziness, family, home, hope, hygge, winter29 Comments
family life

The play of light

August 14, 2018 JOY journal

“Keep your face to the sun and you will never see the shadows.” Helen Keller, American writer Other people may love to bask in the rays of their smart-phone light, to their own peril as it turns out. The dog and I prefer sun. Full on or filtered through white cotton curtains, we follow this… Continue reading The play of light

Tagged dogs, home, simple pleasures, sunlight3 Comments
community, spiritual life

A sense of place

June 20, 2018 JOY journal

“There are no unsacred places; there are only sacred places and desecrated places.” Wendell Berry, American author All this week, I have been mentally revisiting a place that I hold sacred. The Indiana Dunes is the place of my childhood, the place where I fell in love, the place that appears without fail in any… Continue reading A sense of place

Tagged home, refugees, sense of place4 Comments

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