Segullah's Blog, page 40
June 4, 2019
Rethinking Eden: A Holy Becoming
It was one of the rainiest springs ever recorded. We wanted to plant a huge garden this year but the flowers have folded in on themselves. Gardens planted by Mother’s Day are mouldering. At last the earth is wringing out after months of wet. Now my front bush is half dead, my backyard weedscape dense....
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May 31, 2019
Finding Balance: Staying Sure-Footed When Your World Wobbles
I’ve been toeing the line for several weeks now. Well, trying to. Since I hit my head last July, if I strode down a long sidewalk or store aisle, I found myself veering first toward one side and then the other. (I chalked it up to a subconscious tilt toward anything with chocolate or away...
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May 30, 2019
WORDS FALL IN: Podcast reviewing THE TREE IN THE CENTER, a poetry collection by Kathryn Knight Sonntag
YOU GET A CHOICE! You can read my review of Kathryn Knight Sonntag’s book The Tree in the Center below or you can listen to it on our podcast with the addition of poems read by Kathryn herself and some commentary. I personally like to listen to the poet, but if you don’t have the...
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May 27, 2019
Very few of the old gang still around
“Letter from Jack Duncan the other day and he joshed me plenty about not coming back to the fight. However, I think I could detect just a wisp or two of envy running through his mind. Thank goodness Jack is still safe, because as you should be aware there are very few of the old...
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May 24, 2019
Not Every Shot Will be a Slam Dunk
I never thought I’d have a spiritual experience at a pep rally. Then I had an epiphany last month during a performance by the university’s dunk team. A group of athletes brought out several trampolines and mats, placed them just in front of the basketball hoops, turned on some heart-pumping music, and began doing tricks....
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May 23, 2019
I Believe in Unicorns
Some dreams hang out there in the ether. Like a unicorn in the forest. Uncatchable. Unattainable. It’s a risk to pursue the unicorn. You could fail. You might not even catch a glimpse of her — never hear the sound of her breath, the stamp of her hoof, see her sparkles in the air. You...
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May 20, 2019
Announcement: Whitney Award Winners 2018
The 2018 Whitney Awards winners were announced at the eleventh annual Whitney Awards Gala on May 10th, 2019 in nine genre-specific categories (the 2018 awards year combined General and Historical Fiction into the General Fiction category). The Whitney Awards is a fiction awards program for authors who are also members of The Church of Jesus...
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May 17, 2019
Move on and Get over It Already
Suffering is the best teacher–I’ve come to learn. For decades, I have voraciously read history, psychology, literature, philosophy, theology, meditations, and scriptures in an attempt to figure out how to avoid the pitfalls of life. I remember sitting in the Harold B. Lee library as an undergrad and drawing a light-bulb shaped as a heart....
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May 15, 2019
What Would You Attempt to do if You Knew You Could Not Fail?
Eighteen years ago this month, I finished graduate school. At graduation, one of my professors gave me a paperweight with this inscription: What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail? It’s the kind of rhetorical question which can inspire one to bravely reach for whatever one’s goal is, regardless of...
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May 10, 2019
Heaven, Help Us!
My husband Chris was in the midst of dying – neither of us knowing whether he would survive the wicked cancer that was growing in him or the barbaric-yet-cutting-edge surgery he faced to fix him. During that time I enjoyed the most transcendent, joyful hour or so of my life. It wasn’t euphoria – not...
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