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March 11, 2022
Ten Haikus for Ukraine
Ten Haikus for Ukraine For two weeks now my mind has been preoccupied with the war in Ukraine. I’m trying to find balance, but my heart is constantly aware of the travails of that great nation right now. If I’m enjoying my lunch I immediately think of the refugees fleeing their homes hungry and stripped...
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March 7, 2022
In The Church, but Not of The Church
Years and years ago, when I was in Young Women, the catch phrase, “In the world, but not of the world,” was tossed about regularly. The saying is still used in the church as a means of identifying “wicked” behaviour in the world that we all live in, in opposition to the “non-wicked” behaviour we...
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February 18, 2022
Comfort In, Those in Need of Comfort; Dump Out
Life’s challenges tend to overwhelm me unless I make a conscious decision to stand back and gain some perspective. One of the tools that has helped me to do this is the Ring Theory explained by Susan Silk and Barry Goldman in their opinion piece, published on February 3, 2013, by the Los Angeles Times....
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February 11, 2022
Getting Back to Basics: First, Love
It’s well past February 2nd – commemoration day of the Ground Hog, that imprecise harbinger of Springtime. For me this year Punxsutawney Phil has been an especially Grumpy Gus. Early February is often a tough time period for me. Feb. 3rd is the anniversary of my father’s death. I was 20 at the time, and...
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January 24, 2022
Joan Didion and Chicken Soup
The appropriate response to sickness and death is chicken soup. I learned this from Joan Didion’s book, “The Year of Magical Thinking,” and it has helped me escape paralysis in the face of such things. Not being a cook, that has meant sitting in a long line at Chik-Fil-A, but that gives time for contemplation...
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January 21, 2022
Looking for Living Sages: Diverting from Diversions to Roads Less Taken
This semester, I am teaching a course entitled “Later Life and Spirituality.” I invited my students to do reports on living sages, people who are 60 plus years old who demonstrate a measure of wisdom, maturity, leadership, compassion, and service. They just turned in their first of five assignments. All but one of these reports...
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January 16, 2022
Winter Journal 2021-22 Editorial
Many of you are creators. All of us are, really. Just the other day, someone who barely knows me asked how long it had been since I’d created something. (As a poet and writer, I cringed that it had been more than a few months.) A short conversation about what sparks our writing ensued, and...
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Featured Poet
Fae Ellsworth lives in Virgin, Utah, in the shadow of Zion National Park in a house she and her late husband, sculptor, Brent Gehring, built with their hands. She was born in Berkeley California into a bookish family. She was an English major at Brigham Young University and at age 50 returned to the ‘Y’...
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January 14, 2022
The Beloved Community
On Monday, January 17, 2022, our country will celebrate Martin Luther King Day which has been a federal holiday since 1986. One of the most potent concepts Dr. King promoted was the “Beloved Community.” As journalist Grace Tatter describes it: Beloved community [is] a community in which everyone is cared for, absent of poverty, hunger,...
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On Monday, January 17, 2022, our country will celebrate M...
On Monday, January 17, 2022, our country will celebrate Martin Luther King Day which has been a federal holiday since 1986. One of the most potent concepts Dr. King promoted was the “Beloved Community.” As journalist Grace Tatter describes it: “Beloved community [is] a community in which everyone is cared for, absent of poverty, hunger,...
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