Segullah's Blog, page 20
March 27, 2021
Poetry Third Place Winner
Featured image: “Zion’s Glory” by Linda Hoffman Kimball Poetry Third Place: Haley Ashton Breakfast, One Week After the Wildfires Here, in the kitchen’s dark corner, I huddle with my early riser, her face puffy with sleep, while over the toaster’s glowing gaps we clasp hands, and red coils warm our fingers like embers, drawing...
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Poetry Honorable Mention (Second)
Featured Image by Linda Hoffman Kimball Poetry Honorable Mention (Second): Hannah Uffins Homesick Our parents built this home in summer of eight— poured foundation, saw dust angels. We were kids with muddy socks, trailing toothpick grass, brushing the divine as father placed hands on heads. The front door an altar of backpacks. Mother spoiling...
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March 22, 2021
Time to Till
I began to see the parable of the sower in a different light when my husband and I taught the gospel essentials class for a few years. In the parable found in Matthew, Mark and Luke, the seed, representing the word of God, was always good. It was the soil that was different. Christ explained...
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March 19, 2021
Howard Gardner and Encountering the Divine
Because the pandemic has altered the way my family and I worship, this has given me an opportunity to think about what activities create opportunity for encountering the Divine and expressing devotion. I have found myself using the theory of multiple intelligences by Howard Gardner as a schema for exploring how to be inspired and...
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March 16, 2021
Interview with Segullah’s Art Director Linda Hoffman Kimball
Interview with Segullah’s art director, Linda Hoffman Kimball What were some of your early art experiences? As I child I generally had a crayon in my hand at all times. One early adventure with art was when I was 10 and created a papier mâché and coat hanger Bullwinkle the Moose headdress for myself...
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March 12, 2021
Life Lessons from Breaking Boards
Back in the early 1990’s I earned my brown belt in Tae Kwon Do. I don’t know that I had the stamina – mental or physical – to earn a red or black belt, but those possibilities got quashed anyway when I broke my foot practicing a fancy jump kick. While that may have been...
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February 28, 2021
Quit Alcohol to Fight the Patriarchy
TW: rape In the film Promising Young Woman, Carey Mulligan (one of my favourite actors) plays the part of Cassie, who enacts a kind of revenge against men who take advantage of women in bars. The film has challenged many-a-twentieth century romcom story line (I’m looking at you, Knocked Up, Trainwreck, What...
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February 19, 2021
The Perils of Supporting a Parent
My father and his wife life in the Houston metro area, which has experienced record-breaking cold this last week. I called on Tuesday to check on them. That is when I learned they had already gone 30 hours without power. It was 50 degrees inside their house. The next day I discovered that they subsequently...
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February 12, 2021
Yin and Yang and Valentine’s Day
Yin Yang and Valentine’s Day Recently I have felt the pull of both the good and the bad, the beautiful and the horrific, the yin and yang of life. On January 23rd my wonderful, vibrant, full-of-life sister-in-law died from injuries from a car accident. I’m still in denial.On January 27th my new gorgeous, red-headed granddaughter...
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February 6, 2021
How can the church heal from political divisions?
My parents were converts to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and I grew up with ten, count ‘em TEN, protestant aunts and uncles who engaged in a whole lot of church shopping. When Janet grew weary of the pastor’s style—she found a new church; when James got in a big fight with...
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