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‘Howard Freeman (2)’ appears on one of the Firefox browser window tabs and, along with the other seven or so tabs, constitutes a small but growing and ornery press corps at 6:30 this morning. The ‘(2),’ I learn when I click on it, indicates that on Facebook I have a Friend Request waiting (that’s good, [...]
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A moment in the night
Last night I dreamed that one of my sons was missing. Someone watching another son had come back with him, and he had had a hurt finger and was smiling about it, but my other son was missing. I sprinted through the streets in running shoes, faster than I’d ever run. I came to a [...]
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Doing ‘The Worm’ to a Polka
“Have a magical day,” was what you hear from cashiers in the hotel gift shop, ticket booth clerks at the various parks, and ride monitors as they check children’s height. It’s difficult not to at least lean toward obedience after 72 hours or so. My family’s six magical days at Disney World were indeed so, [...]
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I am like an owl Awake, alone, on a roof. My heart is blighted. The Lord heard my groan As one held captive—condemned. His name will be praised. photo: Catch the Dream
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The Christian will express deep joy, deep sorrow, and deep hope. Deep joy is laughter in the face of imminent death. Each of us will die, either in a moment from now or in decades, but die we will. And because the Christian knows that this transition leads only to a new and unending chapter [...]
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