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May 15

God is ‘A Mama Hug’

(A Mother’s Day reflection) In our house, when a liturgical season came around, Advent, Lent, etc., our family would sit around the kitchen table on a Sunday evening and talk. Norah, our oldest child. Nick, our middle child. Nina, our youngest. They now range in age from 20–16. Growing up, they did many peace…

Mothers Day

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God is ‘A Mama Hug’
God is ‘A Mama Hug’
Mothers Day

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May 9

My Aunt, Okla (The end of the road…)

My aunt married an Italian man, Bruno. Who would spin us around, us boys, at Christmas time in China Grove, North Carolina, on the rare occasions he came to be with us. Him and my aunt Okla. She was born in Oklahoma, as you might surmise. Okla was — to…

Family

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My Aunt, Okla (The end of the road…)
My Aunt, Okla (The end of the road…)
Family

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Apr 8

My Symphony Wife

Then word came that the man she was with Was the one she loved in the darkness And though she tried to claim the light It was never good…

Death

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My Symphony Wife
My Symphony Wife
Death

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Mar 28

A Love Letter to the Green Swampy Pond at Nags Head Woods

Dear swampy marshland lake, I am someone who doesn’t get to visit you too often. Or at least not nearly enough. I am someone who didn’t even know water could be that color of green, Or even that green could be that color of green And so I want to thank you for being…

Nags Head Woods

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A Love Letter to the Green Swampy Pond at Nags Head Woods
A Love Letter to the Green Swampy Pond at Nags Head Woods
Nags Head Woods

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Feb 23

Isn’t that the way of the Spirit?

This week! President Biden visited Ukraine and pledged U.S. support for the defense of Ukraine. China’s top diplomat Wang Yi visited the Kremlin and made not-so-veiled criticism of the United States. North Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles into the sea east of the country Monday in its second test…

War

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Isn’t that the way of the Spirit?
Isn’t that the way of the Spirit?
War

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Jan 30

Silence, Teach Me

Silence,

Silence

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Silence, Teach Me
Silence, Teach Me
Silence

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Jan 24

Before the Tears and the Fire of Loss

(A painting by Casimir that is my longtime companion)

Painting

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Before the Tears and the Fire of Loss
Before the Tears and the Fire of Loss
Painting

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Jan 2

Epiphany

So we begin.

Epiphany

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Epiphany
Epiphany
Epiphany

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Dec 8, 2022

I Did Not Die at all in 2008

I did not die well in 1918 Shot five times on a field I could never pronounce Shot five times before Noon. I did not die well in 1988 I took my vitamins. I took My diet. An angel grabbed me At Bethesda Terrace. I did not die at all in 2008. I lived. I survived. But my brain hurts a lot. I shiver warm or cold. Now I’m just old. And I sit in my chair. I died a thousand times. I’m sitting here at the window.

Sad

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I Did Not Die at all in 2008
I Did Not Die at all in 2008
Sad

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Nov 11, 2022

A basic statement on my theology

Since the late 1980s, I’ve been a Unitarian Universalist. I find inspiration from various sources: Jewish msyticism, Buddhism, the stories of Muhammad, literature, movies, and so on. For 25 years…

Teresa Of Avila

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Teresa Of Avila

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Author, Seeds of Devotion. Unitarian Universalist. Ordained 20 years.

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