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Subtle Musings: Pressing & Receiving
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Our journey toward a more sustainable life. Tuesday, August 11, 2015. What a gift vacation was! For one week, in other words, I lived as if grace truly mattered and in the awareness of love and benevolence. In other words, it only took a mere six hours for this sin-sick soul to completely forsake the reality of grace and to step full-heartedly and foolishly right back into the strictures of the Law. Who will save me from this endless backsliding into the need to perform and justify? It is a gift. PBS: Am...
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Subtle Musings: June 2015
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Our journey toward a more sustainable life. Wednesday, June 24, 2015. Several years ago, we posted a picture of our new family dog on our family blog. Her name is Ada, a hulking English Mastiff, weighing no less than 80 pounds when we first took her in. As soon as we posted Ada's picture, one of my friends posted a comment on that photo, "Nice looking dog, but are you guys crazy? Apparently we were. Or, at least a bit naive. Okay. Very naive. It's not just that we let our dog get hurt. It's that Ada'...
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literary allusions in children's books - This Picture Book Life
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Literary allusions in children’s books. Picture books for pairing. How to Hide a Lion. By Helen Stephens (2012). The Tiger Who Came to Tea. By Judith Kerr (1968). Both of these books star little girls and BIG cats. But I’m pairing them for another reason too. The recent title refers to the classic in its pages! How to Hide a Lion. A girl, Iris, shelters a lion who’s gone to town to buy a hat (of course he has.). And then this spread:. Artwork by Helen Stephens. Photo by Sharon F. Jones. When You Reach Me.
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Subtle Musings: August 2015
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Our journey toward a more sustainable life. Wednesday, August 12, 2015. There are three significant challenges that invoke fear and trepidation in the souls of human beings. The first is to scale the heights of Mt. Everest. The second is crawl through that secret, bug-soaked passage way Indiana Jones had to traverse in The Temple of Doom. The third is for a married couple to try to build a house together. Nonetheless, I really did intend to paint the room - imperfections and all. Yes, we have to, right?
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Subtle Musings: February 2015
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Our journey toward a more sustainable life. Saturday, February 14, 2015. Joe and Lisa dropped by later on this afternoon to pass along some Valentine's candy for the kids. They stayed in their Jeep as we told them the story of the coat incident near Ada's doghouse - myself wrapped only by a thick Patagonia fleece in the place of my more trustworthy field jacket. Joe wondered if Lisa remembered that time when all they found of a coat was the zipper! Apparently, I've still got something to salvage.
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Subtle Musings: May 2013
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Our journey toward a more sustainable life. Friday, May 31, 2013. Somewhere between Wyatt's birthday and today, Elise has grown. I know this as fact. From her neck to the tops of her toes, Elise came out of her room dressed for bed in a soft, white gown with braided cuffs just past her shoulder, a braid of her pinned back to the right side of her head. To top it off, she had put on a string of fake pearls around her neck. How many more years until I am a nuisance in her life? Ah, I tremble. I tremble.
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Subtle Musings: July 2013
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Our journey toward a more sustainable life. Tuesday, July 09, 2013. The Elephant in the African Brush. The Bull Elephant in the African Brush. Out of the bush it strides,. In mass and alone;. It twinges and stretches,. Its tusks turned and tilted,. Its almond eyes crying inside its. Leather-patched, hardened hide. The bull alerts itself and its predicament,. Fanning and fronting to its onward course,. Not to be deterred. It strides past the seven-mile cesspool,. Walks its way through the saffron and dust.
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Subtle Musings: March 2013
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Our journey toward a more sustainable life. Tuesday, March 05, 2013. Claire was sandwiched between Rosa and myself. For ten minutes I had sat next to her and had heard not a single word or noise. Turning to her, I could see she had the sanguine look of the gracefully aged, or it could just as easily have been the first sign of Alzheimer's. That's a great shirt you have there, Claire," I said pointing to the Wabash College t-shirt partly hidden beneath her knitted sweater. Do you like it there? Hi, I'm We...
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Subtle Musings: This Year's Remodel
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Our journey toward a more sustainable life. Wednesday, August 12, 2015. There are three significant challenges that invoke fear and trepidation in the souls of human beings. The first is to scale the heights of Mt. Everest. The second is crawl through that secret, bug-soaked passage way Indiana Jones had to traverse in The Temple of Doom. The third is for a married couple to try to build a house together. Nonetheless, I really did intend to paint the room - imperfections and all. Yes, we have to, right?
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Subtle Musings: July 2012
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Our journey toward a more sustainable life. Thursday, July 12, 2012. Mostly local: garlic dill pickles. Most everything seems to have come to a halt with the excessive heat that won't leave us be. We have a freezer full of chickens again, though, and Elise and I just finished cleaning and trimming our garlic for the next year - truly a rewarding crop to grow. Last fall we planted a softneck variety called Inchelium Red, which I ordered from Southern Exposure Seed Exchange. Posted by Wes and Anna Kendall.
