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Willing, Wanting, Waiting....: June 2013
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Thursday, June 27, 2013. Seeing Things Darkly, Seeing Things Clearly. There's nothing like seeing random thoughts, memories, experiences, and a movie collide. It happened to me yesterday. I'm not sure what I expected would happen, but apparently that's what did. I'm still sorting it all out. I'm reading Jeffrey Overstreet's Through a Screen Darkly: Looking Closer at Beauty, Truth and Evil in the Movies. But he's also a gifted author and has written a terrific fantasy series, The Aurelia Thread. But I do ...
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Willing, Wanting, Waiting....: Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
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Wednesday, November 05, 2014. Jon's dragon puppet for school. If anyone wants to break out in the "Hallelujah Chorus" now would be the perfect time for it. We have our shipment at last! The reality of this has not sunk in, nor have we really begun to unpack (barring a few items the kids discovered in one of the boxes). But over dinner joy was building. Clare mentioned a book she loves and I said, "Guess what! It's in the shipment. And the shipment. is here. Needed, just the passports. In fact, kids w...
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Willing, Wanting, Waiting....: August 2014
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Wednesday, August 27, 2014. I do not know Spanish. I can boast of lots of language exposure, and I know a lot about how languages work and how they affect culture, but I am not fluent in any language. I may be using words or turns of phrase that are not used here, and I certainly won't follow the whole response given. We realized this full-force as we entered the education system for the kids. Not only was their registration a full-onslaught of sticker-shock ( How. Much does a uniform cost? Well, the oth...
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Willing, Wanting, Waiting....: The Street Where We Live
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Thursday, October 30, 2014. The Street Where We Live. I thought I'd throw a song reference into this title to spice things up a bit. To tell the truth, while I'm not running out of topics to cover this month, I am. Running out of energy from writing these every day. The writing process is happening later and later in the day, and so nothing else gets done once the kids are in bed. How do days fill up so quickly? I don't have half as much on my calendar as I did back in Michigan! The road so far hasn't be...
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Willing, Wanting, Waiting....: September 2012
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Monday, September 24, 2012. I spent the last four days in a place of magic. It was a place where song and laughter flowed as freely as spring rain, where words and wit flipped and tripped and eyes sparkled, where food was art that enriched all the senses. It was a place where the Spirit of the Great Magician hovered, warming us with His presence. And then it was time to come home. But the magic did not disappear. 8221; Distraction, wonder. The Magician was still speaking and we lived and breathed. And if...
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Willing, Wanting, Waiting....: The Blessing of Totato Soup
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Thursday, November 27, 2014. The Blessing of Totato Soup. It's Thanksgiving Day, and our hearts and minds fly to friends and family who are gathering today to feast and celebrate. I love Thanksgiving; even with all of the food prep it is essentially a lazy day. There is no big agenda. The goal is to be. And to be together. Yesterday my sister Jessie who lives in Singapore wrote about the joy of being invited. We don't make a big deal about Thanksgiving, but we like to have something with friends.". My Mi...
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Willing, Wanting, Waiting....: September 2014
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Tuesday, September 02, 2014. Things That Make You Go "Hmmm". So it is in Guadalajara. One of the first things we noticed here were insanely high or steep curbs. Our apartment, for instance, has a parking garage under our portion of the building, but we use the one in the section next door because there is no way to get into ours. Why not? Well, the curb is high, and the ramp into the garage is so steep that you would need a monster truck to cross the curb without scraping off the bottom of your car.
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Willing, Wanting, Waiting....: February 2013
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Sunday, February 17, 2013. Three Things I Have Loved, Four Things I've Adored. Valentine’s Day has come and gone again with varying emotions… Does exhaustion count as an emotion? I’ve felt that way about Valentine’s Day at times over the past few years as my kids bring home a class list of all the valentines they need to write out, and Mom gets to help her dear ones put all of these together and make sure they get to the right place at the right time. Romance? Candlelight dinners with hubby? The thing is...
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Living Dangerously | Bash Journeys
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Taking life one step at a time. A Little Spiritual Kick. Reality vs Imagination →. June 6, 2013. Today Brian was home early because he needed to go back into work later in the evening. We headed to the store to grab some groceries before dinner. Zach looked out the window, I think it’s going to rain, Mom. We’ll be fine, Zach. We’ll be fast. And with a smile we started our meandering way home. Still unconvinced, he hesitated. That’s when the shopkeeper stepped out and said, You want umbrella? And I was th...
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