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Words, Words, Words. Come Come in. You are welcome to come in. The fourth invitation, which I’ll share first, is to my new Ten Thousand Places Facebook page. Please head over and “like” it — pull up a chair, and make yourself at home! Here’s my little bouquet of wildflower-invitations. You might want to put it in water when you get home. If you don’t have a vase, a mason jar or jelly jar will do just as nicely. Come, come, whoever you are. Wanderer, worshiper, lover of leaving. Perhaps you do not believe...

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Words, Words, Words. Newer posts →. The shape of a home. I cried when I left. The youngest, W, is 1 1/2, a tow-headed toddler who called me Mommy (he called his father and siblings that, too) and hugged me joyfully every morning. That age is my favorite, the sweet little games, the inside jokes that elicit belly laughs (he thought it was hysterical when I would offer him something and then pull it back and say, “Psych! The former Pinebank Mansion. On yoga and standing in lines. I belong in the Caribbean!

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Ten Thousand Places « Ten Thousand Places

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Words, Words, Words. The name of this website comes from a Gerard Manley Hopkins poem, untitled:. As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies dráw fláme;. As tumbled over rim in roundy wells. Stones ring; like each tucked string tells, each hung bell’s. Bow swung finds tongue to fling out broad its name;. Each mortal thing does one thing and the same:. Deals out that being indoors each one dwells;. Selves goes itself;. It speaks and spells,. Whát I do is me: for that I came. Í say móre: the just man justices;.

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Frederick Buechner « Ten Thousand Places

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Words, Words, Words. Tag Archives: Frederick Buechner. The world wants me to write about it today. 8220;Pay attention. As a summation of all that I have had to say as a writer, I would settle for that.”. Instructions for living a life. Purple, with green stripes, and the shoes looked like loafers–. 8221; I called again to the flamboyant world. “That’s not my job right now! What was the name of the street? What was that smell that drifted out of the Italian restaurant as I biked by? Did I write about the ...

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Peripatetics « Ten Thousand Places

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Words, Words, Words. Follow Friday, or What I’m into these days. I’ve been wanting to do another Follow Friday post for awhile now, but I could never remember it on an actual Friday until today. And then, of course, I had to spend a considerable amount of time on Canva. Making a clever and pretty banner for the post (with elephants! Do you like it? So now Friday is almost over, but I think I can still squeeze it in. This American Life Pandora station. Me, too, that’s where I live! What have you been into...

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Shel Silverstein « Ten Thousand Places

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Words, Words, Words. Tag Archives: Shel Silverstein. Come Come in. You are welcome to come in. The fourth invitation, which I’ll share first, is to my new Ten Thousand Places Facebook page. Please head over and “like” it — pull up a chair, and make yourself at home! Here’s my little bouquet of wildflower-invitations. You might want to put it in water when you get home. If you don’t have a vase, a mason jar or jelly jar will do just as nicely. Come, come, whoever you are. Come, yet again , come , come.

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suffering « Ten Thousand Places

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Words, Words, Words. On loving someone in pain. Job Rebuked by His Friends, by William Blake. A dear friend texted me today asking for advice on how to support her friends whose teenage son has been suffering from debilitating migraines for a year and a half. He is angry at God, she said, and can’t believe a good God would allow this kind of suffering. His parents are afraid he is going to renounce God, and she wants to know how to be there for them. I wrote last year. I wrote that I didn’t find an...

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What do you do? « Ten Thousand Places

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Words, Words, Words. What do you do? Just a quick post before I head off to work. I love this definition of vocation by Frederick Buechner. Let me tell you something: I was never any good at street evangelism and I hated it with a passion, but I am a top-notch nanny and I find so much joy in it. And I love to write, and I think I am becoming a good writer. Where do you find joy? And where does the world need you? IT COMES FROM the Latin. That you need most to do and (. 8211; Originally published in.