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Sweet Changeful Chatter
"Shabbat comes with its own holiness. We enter not simply a day, but an atmosphere." Abraham Joshua Heschel At a crowded Shabbat Friday night the rabbi asked us to turn to the people closest to us and share something sweet that happened this week, and...
Sunday’s Thought
Almighty God, heavenly Father, you have blessed us with the joy and care of children: Give us calm strength and patient wisdom to bring them up, that we teach them to love whatever is just and true and good, following the example of our Savior Jesus Christ. Amen -...
Meet Teddy
You forget how tiny babies are, and as my daughter said, how big. It's amazing that all eight pounds of this little person was inside my slip of a girl until four days ago. Arms, legs, hair. Yesterday I started to tell her to be sure to drink plenty of water, and ask...
Welcome Happy (Monday) Morning
We did not have an Easter baby.. He arrived the night before! Theodore Lende Lynch, named for his grandfathers (Teddy Bear to his cousins and sisters already), is big (8 lbs. 2 oz) has a head full of dark hair and a face like a boxer (for the time being, he came into...
When Women Were Whales
My youngest daughter Stoli is in Juneau waiting to have a baby and visiting with her oldest sister Eliza, so their children, the four cousins, are hanging out.They will have been together about a month on Sunday. I think the initial novelty is wearing off. No, you...
Sunday’s Thought
From Pam Houston's new book Deep Creek: "Where there is life, there is hope, a veterinarian I loved for the way he loved my dog once told me. By which he meant, as long as we are living, there is always time to expand the story." I read that this morning by accident,...
Where Have You Been?
To Unlalaska Dutch Harbor in the Aleutians. It is one of my new favorite places. It's so remote, wild, beautiful, and desolate, what with no trees and few people, and yet it is also a major port for trans world shipping and fishing boats, home to huge seafood...