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coming home to myself: April 2014
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Coming home to myself. Thursday, April 24, 2014. Rediscovering the Art of Discourse. Thirty days after I left the convent, I began to work at Pflaum Publishing. The day before, I’d flown from Kansas City to Dayton. Looking back I realize that the normal reaction to the possibility of a new job might be both anxiety and eagerness. But all I can remember is feeling passive and emotionless. The “acting normal” became almost second nature and by mid-January, I could engage in conversation with my...Growing u...
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coming home to myself: May 2014
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Coming home to myself. Thursday, May 29, 2014. The Mysterious Arc of Time . . . And Love. In the school year 1972-73, six years after leaving the convent, I taught high school juniors in Claremont, New Hampshire. Their syllabus included Look to the Mountain. A historical novel written by LeGrand Cannon, Jr. It is an engrossing story about Whit—a taciturn pioneer with great good sense, strength of mind and body, and a tenacity bred by a hardscrabble upbringing. A historical novel about Louis XI and . ...
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coming home to myself: June 2014
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Coming home to myself. Thursday, June 26, 2014. Please Keep My Writing in Your Thoughts. Last Friday I sent a New York agent an e-mail query about a cat fantasy gift book. It’s part of a proposed trilogy I’ve been working on for a while. At the end of the query I gave the URL for this on-line memoir. The entire cat manuscript. The historical novel The Reluctant Spy. The convent memoir on which I’ve been working. The manuscript will be a partial because I’ve posted only the novitiate and the scholas...
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coming home to myself: December 2013
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Coming home to myself. Thursday, December 19, 2013. The Gifts of Simplicity and Time. The last two months have been busy: I vacationed for two weeks, which always means, for me, about four weeks—an initial week of packing and planning, two weeks away, and then a week of recuperating. So there went November with no postings and no blogging. Then, decorating the house and the tree and writing messages on Christmas cards. By Marcel Rieder, 1898. I started off with good intentions, but I’ve gotten lost...
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coming home to myself: The Need to Be Resolute
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Coming home to myself. Thursday, October 23, 2014. The Need to Be Resolute. In January 1967 I moved to Dayton. Two and a half years later—in August 1969—I left Ohio to attend graduate school at the University of Minnesota. During those thirty-two months, I mostly enjoyed life: I made many new friends and was “adopted” by a young couple who had two children with whom I played lightheartedly. And yet, deep down in my psyche was the thought—one I didn’t want to embrace then or even now—tha...I wrote to say ...
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coming home to myself: September 2014
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Coming home to myself. Thursday, September 25, 2014. Be Gracious to Yourself. There’s not much more to say about Dr. C. except that at our last session he gave me life-saving advice. I was leaving Dayton to attend graduate school at the University of Minnesota, and he knew my penchant for seeking perfection so as to win approval. He also, I think, knew what graduate school would demand of me. And so he said, “Dee, do you understand the term psychic energy? 8220;Okay.”. 8220;Okay.”. 8220;The thing is, Dee...
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coming home to myself: November 2013
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Coming home to myself. Thursday, November 28, 2013. For All of You, I Give Thanks. Hello to all of you whose blogging friendship has enriched my life during the past year. All of us, I hope and trust, have so much for which to be grateful. Each day, life offers us blessings pressed down and overflowing. Often these blessings come as surprises: we feel a sudden upsurge of gratitude within our innards. A lightness of heart and mind. Joy. A feeling of contentment. Meniere’s entered my life in 2006 and...
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coming home to myself: August 2014
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Coming home to myself. Thursday, August 28, 2014. A Move Accompanied by Music. In August one friend began to study the classified ads in the Dayton Daily News. She found a three-bedroom apartment at a “swingin’ singles” complex that boasted a swimming pool with a concrete surround furnished with deck chairs, tables with umbrellas, and hootenanny music. One of those songs—written by Seeger in the 1950s and sung by Joan Baez in the mid-'60s—helped get me involved in the Vietnam War protest. A third song, w...
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coming home to myself: The Showdown at the O.K. Corral
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Coming home to myself. Thursday, October 30, 2014. The Showdown at the O.K. Corral. A panoramic view of Cincinnati. A friend picked me up in his Volkswagen beetle. George had studied for the priesthood, but had left before ordination. So he and I shared a mutual interest in the religious life as well as the arts. Our conversation never lagged as he drove the fifty miles from Dayton to the larger city. The cathedral of St. Peter in Chains in downtown Cincinnati. 8220;A friend brought me.”. 8220;What about...
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coming home to myself: A Cache of Letters Reveals Faulty Memory
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Coming home to myself. Thursday, November 13, 2014. A Cache of Letters Reveals Faulty Memory. The Mount College Chapel. These past two weeks have been busy with me going hither and yon for health and recreation. Thus, I didn’t post last Thursday and this week I haven’t visited any of your blogs. I hope to do a “blog marathon” this weekend and catch up. Now to today’s posting. In this posting and perhaps one or two more, I’d like to share that cache of letters with you. I don’t have the on...Sister M....
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