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The past several weeks I’ve been taking a self-development course that is mostly taught by author and speaker Mary Morrissey.  She is a fabulous storyteller and recently told the story of David and Goliath from a slightly different angle, something along these lines.    The Israelites, led by King Saul were at war with the […]

This is a time of year with a lot of emphasis on giving.  There’s Thanks-giving and the consumer mania of Black Friday and Cyber Monday.  And now there’s Giving Tuesday.  I’m not yet sure how I feel about that last one.  I almost did a post the night before Giving Tuesday to promote it but […]

Thanksgiving is one of my favorite holidays.  It doesn’t have the manic consumerist feel of Christmas.  I like the meal-sharing, rather than gift-sharing aspect.  Also, since I’m a pretty terrible cook and my good friends know that, on Thanksgiving I get to bring simple things like cheese and roast garlic and eat lots of tasty […]

For the most part, I like the Holidays.  I like the shift in seasons and the focus on gathering with friends and family.  I like some of the campy movies, especially the old Burl Ives Claymation cartoons.  I even like giving, and certainly receiving, meaningful gifts! For me, things slow down a bit during the […]

My spiritual journey has been anything but linear.  I was raised with a heavy-handed approach to Christianity that was judgmental, blatantly patriarchal and frankly a bit terrifying. Out of well-intentioned concern for our immortal souls my mother would cart my little brother and me to the tiny country church near our home in the forested […]