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The Ground Underneath my Feet: April 2013
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The Ground Underneath my Feet. Wednesday, April 17, 2013. Vespers: reflections on the Boston Marathon. Taken from a vespers service I led at Holden on 4/17/2013). I didn’t mean to sign up for vespers. Last Wednesday at the staff meeting, when Pastor Scott stood at the podium with a clip board and said he needed a leader for vespers next Wednesday, I thought he said reader. I watched the quiet response from my perch in the loft and wondered what the big deal was. Is anyone willing? Ain I’ll skim the...
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The Ground Underneath my Feet: November 2013
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The Ground Underneath my Feet. Tuesday, November 26, 2013. Orion: The Place Where You Live. Check out a short piece I wrote about Holden Village for Orion's "The Place for You Live" web feature:. Http:/ www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/place where you live/view/holden village 7905/. Posted by rachael shay. Tuesday, November 12, 2013. A poem on "On Being's" Blog. Pretty excited about this! Http:/ www.onbeing.org/blog/the-silent-footsteps-of-unheralded-vets-a-poem/6048. Posted by rachael shay. Peter suggest...
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The Ground Underneath my Feet: January 2014
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The Ground Underneath my Feet. Wednesday, January 15, 2014. The road east, on route to Portland after Thanksgiving, 2014. She told me later, pancaked by the trunk of a tree. I pictured every bone-crushing scenario, feeling the shape of my body, my warmth and breath, my smallness. I contemplated sleeping on the living room couch but remained in bed heaped under wool blankets, fascinated by the force of wind, in awe of the storm outside my window. 8220;When death comes. And therefore I look upon everything.
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The Ground Underneath my Feet: Vespers-4/24
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The Ground Underneath my Feet. Thursday, April 24, 2014. I led a vespers tonight- here is my reflection:. The Long Loneliness,. That’s why we all feel so tired. For those three days, we wait. We slog through spiritual transition. We strip the altar and wait for tulips and alleluias, for members of our community to transform our worship space, and for someone to finally tell us to leave church, to go forth into the world with hope in our hearts and mud on our shoes. Posted by rachael shay. The Way It Is.
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The Ground Underneath my Feet: Publication in Pithead Chapel!
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The Ground Underneath my Feet. Sunday, February 2, 2014. Publication in Pithead Chapel! I feel very lucky to be included in this month's issue of Pithead Chapel. I'm particularly excited to have this essay. About being in my twenties published the day after my 28th birthday! Humanities 557: A Twenty-Something Survey Course. Posted by rachael shay. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). The Best American Essays 2013. Robert Atwan and Cheryl Strayed. Books I've read since arriving at Holden Village:. Public r...
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The Ground Underneath my Feet: March 2014
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The Ground Underneath my Feet. Wednesday, March 26, 2014. Holden Village has someone in the community volunteer daily to do matins- a morning reflection we listen to during breakfast.). The Brother’s K. It's funny how everybody has their own pet notion about Jesus and nobody's pet notion seems to agree with anybody else's. Grandawma, for instance, says He's "just a defunct social reformer." Then there's Papa, who once said he's God’. Has trouble deciding just what He is.". Posted by rachael shay. Robert ...
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The Ground Underneath my Feet: February 2014
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The Ground Underneath my Feet. Sunday, February 2, 2014. Publication in Pithead Chapel! I feel very lucky to be included in this month's issue of Pithead Chapel. I'm particularly excited to have this essay. About being in my twenties published the day after my 28th birthday! Humanities 557: A Twenty-Something Survey Course. Posted by rachael shay. My work"- inspired by A. Papatya Bucak's wonderful essay in Brevity,. My work is to spend nights cross-legged on my bed trying to write essays. Essayer. My wor...
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The Ground Underneath my Feet: Published in Prick of the Spindle
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The Ground Underneath my Feet. Sunday, March 23, 2014. Published in Prick of the Spindle. On my way back to Washington after Christmas break I wrote a short essay about my relationship with Michigan- a lovely journal called Prick of the Spindle. Ht tp:/ www.prickofthespindle.com/nonfiction/8.1/button/button.html. Posted by rachael shay. March 25, 2014 at 6:19 AM. March 26, 2014 at 7:36 PM. Home has become a kind of prayer. A place I long for, which feels more made-up with every year that passes. Arugula:...
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The Ground Underneath my Feet: Remnants of an essay I'm still struggling to write
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The Ground Underneath my Feet. Wednesday, June 4, 2014. Remnants of an essay I'm still struggling to write. 2011, Yosemite National Park:. I tell Keith I want a pen. 8221; He asks, striding out in front of me. 8220;There’s always a detail you can record to make something real.” Here, I point, “Pine cones scattered across lichen crusted rocks, lizards skittering at the sound of our feet crunching trail, the changes in the texture of the mountain.”. There’s a section from Contents May Have Shifted,. I̵...
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