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Mutual Feeling of Communion

July 7, 2011

  “Be good to those who stay behind, and be quiet and confident in their presence.  Do not torment them with your doubts, and do not shock them with your confidence or your joy, which they cannot understand.  Try to establish with them a simple, sincere mutual feeling of communion that need not change if [...]

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Strength in Vulnerability

June 24, 2010

I see a vulnerability and tenderness in this damselfly.  I cannot imagine how it survives for even a day.  It seems to me that the wind, alone, would tumble her to her death at first gust.  Yet this little creature flits about with all the confidence and strength of a Goliath, and the courage and [...]

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Returning Home

June 8, 2010

I’m happy to be back in Georgia after being away for 25 years.  It is surprising to me that I am settling in this quickly and easily.  The warm bright sun, gorgeous southern flowers, nearby friends, and ease of getting to my father’s home, certainly help.  It is so very familiar and there is comfort [...]

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