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How To Remember Well- Thoughts on 9-11 & Fear Vs. Hope
Ten years ago I sat in Junior English class and heard that a plane had crashed into the World Trade Center. To be honest, I vaguely knew what the World Trade Center was. At sixteen, I wasn’t really into New York architecture. I knew about the Statue of Liberty and the Empire State Building, but Continue reading
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Importance is not Grandeur
“It soon became clear that I was not so much preparing for an important experience, as I was having one.” – Wendell Berry it’s important to walk on grass with bare feet important to smell sweet magnolia blossoms important to spend time talking long conversations uninterrupted it’s important to sit here writing my thoughts Continue reading
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Men & Rocks (A Parable)
Two men were walking down an old dusty road called life carrying sacks. One stopped along the way and picked up a stone called “Addiction,” and put it in his sack. The second man picked up a stone called “Evangelism.” They walked a little further, when the first man found a rock called “Sexual Sin.” Continue reading
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In Your Head
life and death are strung between the choices words, touch, feelings, what he’s fighting for he’s teeming with possibility: whether world domination or world peace, he’s anything but a pacifist neutral is no ground to camp on give him rocks or water destruction lies in the hands that make art in his speech he can Continue reading
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Naming Grace Moments
I just got home after being away six weeks. I also just finished Ann Voskamp’s book “One Thousand Gifts.” It is a book you have to read slowly, breathe in every sentence, let it affect you and wake you up. Indeed, that is her cry: “Wake up!” See that everything in your life is a Continue reading
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The Tree Of Life
I saw The Tree of Life twice, and it really affected me. I’ve been wanting to write about it, but it’s been a little intimidating. I really am not sure to begin. I am not a film critic at all, so I am not going to critique it or tell you anything about Continue reading
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The Relevant Generation
(I wrote this essay two years ago and revised it to fit on my blog.) This is the relevant generation. We’ve been over-churched and hurt and jaded. We’ve been burnt out, but we’ve realized that it was people, not God. The worst insult is to be called “a pharisee” or to be fake. Religion is Continue reading
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Art Is Home
notes build like bricks to create structures to be filled with souls who find home there words mix like swirling colors in paint cans making drab and old weathered browns new blush reds and starry-eyed blues we live inside art because we need to know our slight hope of excruciating beauty really means something that Continue reading
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Some Sort of Belonging
It all begins with a newborn’s first cry. I guess if you are going to begin somewhere, there is not much further back you can go. She enters the world, not understanding why this warm space she’s been taking up is fading away. The room she enters is cold, sterile, unfriendly. I wanna go back! Continue reading
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