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Chickens Bring People Together

April 20th, 2009 · 1 Comment · community, entertainment, home & garden, lifestyle, sustainability

We spent our weekend outdoors in the dazzling sunshine building our chicken coop and interacting with our neighbors.  (The first activity nicely fueled the second activity).  About $400 and 25 person-hours later,we have what my housemate Evan cheerfully terms one expensive, half-assed chicken coop. (None of us claim to be highly skilled carpenters.) How did [...]

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Easter, The Earth And The Great Turning

April 12th, 2009 · No Comments · home & garden, nature, spirituality & religion

It’s Easter morning! And warmish out! My pear trees and blueberry bushes are blossoming, our baby chicks are growing into leggy adolescents, and I’ll soon walk over to choir practice at Tabor Heights Methodist, where we’ll rehearse  — with trumpet players! –  for the Easter service. It’s all so climactic.  . . . diamond-cut, really. [...]

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Back To Church And Crossing Over

December 28th, 2008 · No Comments · community, spirituality & religion

After being snowed and iced out the last two Sundays in a row, I finally get to go back to church this morning. My connection with God is even more important than usual to me right now because my mother-in-law Joan, in her ninth day at Providence hospital, appears to be dying. Her lungs are [...]

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Doing The Unthinkable

March 21st, 2008 · No Comments · sustainability

Every household has its own little culture. Within Thor’s and mine, I did the unthinkable last night: I drove (did not walk) the 3/10 mile from our house over to choir practice.

This was not even in the Prius or other hybrid we have yet to purchase, but in our 1993 Nissan Sentra. As I was stepping out the door to walk to the church, I realized there

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Confession: I Love Church

February 3rd, 2008 · 7 Comments · spirituality & religion, sustainability

Most of us have a closeted part of ourselves, a part we don’t readily reveal. For some, it is sexual orientation, or political beliefs. But for me, it is the fact that I love church and love to worship God there, with others.

Why am I shy about this, when I am not known for shyness in general? There’s more than one reason, but just one I can tackle before I

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