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Goals and Visions
155. Goals and Visions In the past seven or eight years I’ve been working with goals and visioning. It began as my daughter started her own coaching and consulting business. I agreed to be one of her first clients in a program called “Best…
How Many Times
154. How Many Times Today I led devotions for a District UMW Planning Team and because Thanksgiving Day is approaching, I pulled out a piece of music I wrote in 1981. As we sang it, I was reminded that I still need to hear…
Misconceptions of Aging
153. Misconceptions of Aging I worked for thirteen years with the elderly as a music therapist, eleven years in a nursing home in Rockland County, and two in a nursing home in Westchester. Sometimes as I told people where I worked they expressed sympathy…
Faith and Feminism
152. Feminism and Faith This is the first of several on the issue of feminism—not necessarily all in a row—just know that I’ll come back to it. Secular and faith-based have usually blended together for me. Years ago I went to a book group…
Using the Light
151. Using the Light I continue to love the shadorma poetry form. If you remember from past posts, it is a six line poem, no rhyme scheme, but a syllable scheme: first line—three syllables; second line—five syllables; third line—three syllables; fourth line—three syllables; fifth…
Seven – Explained
150. Seven – Explained I believe that William Wordsworth’s poem “We Are Seven” is a powerful narrative poem. As I read it for the first time, I found myself near tears at this little girl’s calm insistence that her brother and her sister who…
Seven
149. Seven Today I share with you a favorite poem of mine. Tomorrow I will share my connections with this poem. It’s powerful if you read it out loud. — We Are Seven by William Wordsworth — —A simple child, That lightly draws its…
The Lists from Sandy
148. The Lists from Sandy Have you noticed people making lists and saying “These are the things I’m going to change before there’s another storm like Sandy.” My dentist said, “This is not going to happen again to me in the same way—next time…
Sandy—Ten Day Effect
147. Sandy—Ten Day Effect I did postings many days in advance of the Storm Sandy and that’s what you’ve been reading. Now I’m typing this on Thursday, November 8, and it will be posted on Monday, November 12. Today we are on Day 10…
The Lord’s Prayer / Part 2
146 – The Lord’s Prayer / Part 2 Yesterday I posted about the anthem “The Lord’s Prayer,” published by Abingdon Press. It was written by Mark Miller and Laurie Zelman, words adapted from Matthew 6:9-13. And yesterday I wrote about the usual line “lead…
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