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  • simpcon

    Lent- Day 25: Sorry Ms. Jackson.

        I was visited again today by Friend 2 from last week. Repeatedly throughout her visit, the conversation veered into some of the more difficult areas of life- illness, breakups and death.…

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    Lent- Day 24: Euphoria in aporia.

    A drawing of Soren Kierkegaard I did yesterday.     I haven’t been sleeping well the last few nights. My thoughts, during the day and night, are on my daddy, who’s been…

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    Lent- Day 23: The Jinx is brought to light.

    (IMDB)     Have you heard about Robert Durst? There’s a lot- and that’s an understatement- to tell about the stranger-than-fiction-yet-very-real man at the center of multiple murders. From The New York…

  • JayZShot

    Lent- Day 22: Wading in the nihil.

      Jay-Z in “On the Run” (Radio Lab)   It’s been a long, long day. Rainy, gray and layered thickly with foreboding. A real walking in “the valley of the shadow of…

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    Lent- Day 21: Silence is golden.

    Me in 2012 enjoying some early morning quiet. When Zoe was a baby, I would sneak out around 6AM, while she and K were still asleep. I’d high tail it to the…

  • kwanon

    Lent- Day 20: Before Christ, no one is anonymous.

    (Source)     Today’s hotest video features Kanye West, but it’s most definitely not Yeezus approved. Before I continue, if you’re sick of me mentioning Mr. West so much during these Lenten…

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    Lent- Day 19: What happens to hope deferred?

      What a day. In between a trip to the bank and my weekly IVIG session, I hung out with a couple of friends discussing life, love and having babies. One friend…

  • key art dollhouse

    Lent- Day 18: The sea of forgetfulness is better than the valley of the dolls.

        Over the weekend I started watching the cancelled Fox show “Dollhouse”, available for streaming on Netflix. It came highly recommended by my brother Joe, who didn’t even have to “Sherlock”…

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    Lent- Day 17- My spirit faints.

      (Source) As a kid, I just couldn’t understand the Israelites. Why, after God delivered them out of slavery in Egypt, would they so quickly turn to making a golden calf to worship…

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    Lent- Day 16: Ponderings of the heart.

     Zoe in 2013. The pout is strong in this one.      Around Zoe’s second birthday, we took her for a check-up at the pediatrician. She wass weighed, measured and given shots.…