Segullah's Blog, page 21
February 3, 2021
On Looking Up
I took a picture the other day. It has become a still-life vignette of my morning hours. It’s ritualistic at this point and I wonder if the students are as bored of the pre-first-period predictability of it all as I am. The picture is an out-and-out modern siren-call to Rembrandt. Only in that it’s a...
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January 26, 2021
Witness: My 2021 Word of the Year
I stopped making New Year’s resolutions a few years ago, in part because I was suffering paralysis by analysis. True, the New Year invites people to do some soul searching. However, I have additional invitations to reflect because for decades, I have been a student or a teacher, making the winter break a time to...
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January 25, 2021
Inauguration
I watched the inauguration of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris in bits and pieces as I had to work on Wednesday. Even in that scattered way, I have been mightily affected. I watched the insurrection similarly, as it was also a Wednesday. I watched clips when I got home and then through the week. I...
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January 12, 2021
despite a wide difference of opinion
One of the blessings of the pandemic is my front row seat to my sons’ YSA ward at my kitchen counter. Each week, my admiration for the young adults in our church increases as I listen to their thoughtful comments and insights on Zoom Sunday School and Elder’s Quorum lessons. This Sunday, the young men...
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January 8, 2021
Insurrection
Insurrection When I was 10 in 1962, I was aware from overheard news reports of something involving our US government, Cuba, and Russia. I couldn’t have told you any details, but the Cuban Missile Crisis seeped into my naïve little system. I seriously thought I wouldn’t live to see 12. On November 22, 1963, I...
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January 4, 2021
Loss, or When Where is No Doctrine
“I just don’t want anyone else to tell me what to believe,” my friend said with firmness. We were discussing religion. She knows I identify as Mormon, and she has some faraway Mormon relatives. She knew them when she and they were teens, a good twenty years ago. Religion, time and physical distance added them...
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December 19, 2020
Esther Hi’ilani Candari – Artist’s Statement
Esther Hi’ilani Candari was born to a mixed Asian American family and raised on the beautiful eastern shore of Oahu, Hawai’i. As an artist, her work reflects this rich multicultural upbringing and often draws upon Polynesian symbols and cultural ideologies. Her work is primarily figurative and explores concepts such as multiracial identity; gender and the...
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Just Receive
My ex-husband bought me a waffle maker for Christmas. Well, technically, my kids “bought” me a waffle maker for Christmas, but I know they don’t get that kind of money from their allowance. A few weeks ago, when my ex dropped the kids off on Sunday morning, he brought in a large box and stuck...
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December 18, 2020
Winter Journal Poetry
The Field Is White By Kelly Burdick Oh Lord, your field is lacking definition, her edges white and softened under snow, all harshness smoothed and flattened in submission, though still you’re sending flakes. Just so you know, I’m curled inside, my roof collecting cold that’s meant for me. Instead, I’m warm and near a...
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Small Acts Matter: Microfitness and Microservice
The pandemic has complicated every area of my life, which has increased my levels of anxiety and depression. For months, I have been striving to find ways to recalibrate my life by recognizing my limits, setting priorities, and focusing on one day at a time. Nevertheless, I still find myself all too often under the...
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