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Apr.12.2013
The Antagonist, By Lynn Coady
This book is on the surface a rant by a hard-luck fellow, Gordon Rankin, Jr. (Rank), via e-mail, caused by an old college acquaintance’s novel, in which Rank finds himself the very apparent subject. Beneath the superficial rant, though, the book concerns many things...
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Mar.20.2013
Here's a round-up of inspiring, intimate, important posts you might have missed, about fashioning your lives to fit you and being in the world as only you can be. To all of you, as Shirley Rivera -- who you'll meet below -- would say: big puffy heart.
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Jan.06.2013
Spluckens. It's not a word or at least I don't think it is but it feels right, it suits the mood. There, I will write it again. Spluckens. It's supposed to be fun this writing thing. This putting down of words on paper. Spluckens.
Imagine being in a room full of Spluckens. Okay. You must think I am...
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Jan.06.2013
Traditionally, it is La Befana – and not Father Christmas – who brings gifts to the children of Central Italy. It is on the morning of the Epiphany, that children would wake up to find packages under their beds. If they had been good children for the preceding twelve months, of...
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Jan.06.2013
Every day we gamble on miracles. Each time we take a breath, drink some water or eat a bit of food, we are gambling that this new thing coming into our bodies will keep us alive. We are betting that the miracle of life will continue.
Our ancestors were huge gamblers. They...
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Jan.06.2013
Epiphany as a holiday has a very rich tradition but people speak less often of epiphany as a feeling. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epiphany_%28feeling%29
In pondering the nature of God or gods, philosophers and theologians often ask whether God is immanent in this world as in pantheism or...
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Jan.06.2013
On the Twelfth Day of Christmas, in the very dead of winter, the Epiphany...
Random reflections celebrating the paintings of Caspar David Friedrich, whose transcendent luminosity transports us to its source.
There are two ways of spreading light; to be the candle or the mirror that...
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Jan.05.2013
I think we may be the only people with a Christmas tree still standing, lights on, in our living room. Everyone else has packed away the festive decorations. Not me, the skeptic. I won’t take them down just yet.
As the twelfth day of Christmas, The Feast of the Epiphany, Little Christmas, Three...
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Dec.13.2012
Awakening with this epiphany, I laughed. Really, four epiphanies in one night of sleep? It sounded like a strange play or movie concept.
This epiphany was about my daily mantras.
I awoke with the realization that I don't really use daily mantras. I use situational mantras...
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Dec.13.2012
My third epiphany was about a dream about a blue healing light bathing me.
The dream had taken place last week. It was a half remembered thing, not even half remembered, but a fleeting instant glimpsed and trapped in my mind's amber.
Today was more of the same, at first. I...
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