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Lent- Day 2: More Glorious.
(Google CC Image: link) I was feeling pretty low on the general state of humanity yesterday, and rightfully so. Today’s Scripture reading of Romans 8:22 shows just how deep our stinkiness sinks: “We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time.” Yup, ALL of…
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Lent- Day 31: Let it be to me.
“Paolo de Matteis – The Annunciation” by Paolo de Matteis (Wiki Commons) Today is the Feast of the Annunciation. For those unfamiliar, from Wikipedia: The Feast of the Annunciation, contemporarily the Solemnity of the Annunciation, commemorates the visit of the angel Gabriel to the Virgin Mary, during which he informed…
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Lent- Day 30: For whom the bell tolls.
(Wiki Commons) So I am totally being lazy in the Soren Kierkegaard class I’m taking. Assigned to read Plato’s “Euthyphro”, I haven’t been able to read more than a few pages before having my brain scream “Nope” and start daydreaming of how cute K would look in a pair of horn-rimmed glasses. …
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Lent- Day 29: Before one of them came to be.
(Source) Momma Kathy is busy, with the help of Monica, arranging Daddy’s funeral. I don’t know how she’s doing it. I haven’t been sleeping well for over a week, and combined with migraines and sinus pain, CIDP is kicking my butt right now. I was thinking about a time…
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Lent- Days 27 & 28: We’ll always love Big Poppa.
My daddy passed away today a few minutes after one P.M. Defying expectations, he survived over two days off the respirator, which makes perfect sense knowing how big his heart was and how powerful those lungs, which powered a loud booming voice, were. I want to thank everyone who’s reached out to…
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Lent- Day 26: Waiting.
We sat today, waiting. Waiting for my dad to die. He was moved to hospice this week, and a little after 11 this morning, they shut off the respirator. My grandmother, cousin Velvet, her husband Mike, cousin John, brother Joe, his wife Jenny, stepmom Kathy, her sister Monica, K, Z and I all…
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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. I kept responding to her frustrated statements with, “But I can’t control that” and “I cannot make people do what they do not…
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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 on life support since last week. We- the family- know, but are still grappling with the reality that we are nearing the end.…
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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 Times: NEW ORLEANS — Dressed in an orange jumpsuit with his hands and feet shackled in chains, Robert A. Durst agreed in…
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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 death”. I’m not being dramatic, it’s just really been that kind of day. This morning I began “Søren Kierkegaard – Subjectivity, Irony and…
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