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Songbird
Portland, Maine
Writing My Way Through It
Interests: Writing, Knitting, Reading, Music, Bernese Mountain Dogs, RevGalBlogPals, United Church of Christ
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I like this idea for you, especially the not reading part, because I understand that affliction. :-)
Commented Apr 27, 2012 on Spiritual Direction at Terrapin Station
Spiritual Direction
I wrote to my friend Robin recently asking her for advice on how to find a spiritual director. She is a SD and I value her opinion very highly. She responded to me in this blog post. Wonderful thoughts and advice and some more in the comments. Thank you! Why? I'm in therapy and have been...
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Hello, GCRadio listeners! I'm over at Blogger now, same title, but a different URL: Reflectionary. Thanks to Carol Howard Merritt, Landon Whitsitt and Shawn Plunkett for making me feel at home. Continue reading
Posted Mar 23, 2011 at Reflectionary
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Good for you!
Commented Mar 16, 2011 on How I fell in love with Children's Church at Terrapin Station
How I fell in love with Children's Church
"The 8:30 service is a Rite II liturgy using a blended contemporary style of music and worship, designed to be friendlier to families with small children. The 8:30 Adult Choir leads the worship with anthems, piano and of course the Annunciation Memorial Pipe Organ." (so sayeth our church webs...
I love these, particularly the first and the story around it. Thanks for sharing it, Sally.
Commented Jan 28, 2011 on Favourite Bible Verses- Friday Five at Eternal Echoes
Favourite Bible Verses- Friday Five
Over at Revgals Songbird asks us: Twenty years ago, I was on a Pastoral Search Committee, and one of the questions we asked the ten candidates we interviewed in the first round was to tell us their three favorite passages of scripture. I loved hearing the variety of verses quoted and even lear...
I love that story about your parents; I didn't know it!
Commented Jan 5, 2011 on The Day I was Born at Terrapin Station
The Day I was Born
NaBloPoMo asks: Tell us about the day you were born. I was born on April 5, 1965 in Houston, Texas. According to The Old Farmer's Almanac, it was approximately 74.5 degrees and may have rained that day. That sounds like April in Houston. Actually, it was in Sharpstown, which was the neighborh...
It sounds great!!!
Commented Jan 2, 2011 on Staycation, all I ever wanted... at Terrapin Station
Staycation, all I ever wanted...
I went to my parents' on Sunday in the week before Christmas, and celebrated with them, my sister and her family. Nancy and I My parents Nancy's house had just been on the Mertzon Tour of Homes. It was GORGEOUS. She has a new kitchen re-do complete with mudroom and pantry bigger than my ...
Friends are good for things like that. Thank you for your friendship.
Commented Dec 18, 2010 on #reverb10 - at Terrapin Station
#reverb10 -
December 15 – 5 Minutes Imagine you will completely lose your memory of 2010 in five minutes. Set an alarm for five minutes and capture the things you most want to remember about 2010. The time at the beach with my parents...so precious to be there and especially with them. They have such a lon...
I am glad for you about the cleaning lady and all the other steps. Including the asking.
Commented Dec 14, 2010 on #reverb10 - action and appreciate at Terrapin Station
#reverb10 - action and appreciate
December 13 – Action When it comes to aspirations, it’s not about ideas. It’s about making ideas happen. What’s your next step? (Author: Scott Belsky) Baby steps. What I know to be true is that the elephant has to be eaten one bite at a time. I don't do well with big projects and grand ideas. ...
I hear you.
Commented Dec 13, 2010 on #reverb10 Wisdom at Terrapin Station
#reverb10 Wisdom
Wisdom. What was the wisest decision you made this year, and how did it play out? Huh. I have been sitting with this for a few days and still, I'm stumped. If I were in a place where I were making big life changing decisions, it'd be easier: to get married, to move, to buy a car. Nothing l...
:-)
Commented Dec 10, 2010 on #reverb10 Party at Terrapin Station
#reverb10 Party
December 9 – Party Prompt: Party. What social gathering rocked your socks off in 2010? Describe the people, music, food, drink, clothes, shenanigans. (Author: Shauna Reid) Well. I am not a big party goer. But I greatly enjoyed the Staff Appreciation Week Pizza Lunch in November. Our departmen...
The sound of your voice cheers me!
Commented Dec 9, 2010 on #reverb10 Beautifully Different at Terrapin Station
#reverb10 Beautifully Different
December 8 – Beautifully Different. Think about what makes you different and what you do that lights people up. Reflect on all the things that make you different – you’ll find they’re what make you beautiful. (Author: Karen Walrond) I laugh in a loud and uninhibited way that people say makes th...
I'm glad we're part of a community together. Love you.
Commented Dec 8, 2010 on #reverb10 Community at Terrapin Station
#reverb10 Community
December 7 – Community. Where have you discovered community, online or otherwise, in 2010? What community would you like to join, create or more deeply connect with in 2011? (Author: Cali Harris) I am very fortunate that online community and IRL community are both abundantly available to...
Suppose you go to the core of the onion and that was the end? Doesn't that make peeling it gradually and learning the lessons more deeply slightly more appealing?
Commented Dec 6, 2010 on #reverb10 Let Go at Terrapin Station
#reverb10 Let Go
December 5 – Let Go. What (or whom) did you let go of this year? Why? (Author: Alice Bradley) I let go of the need for things to be the way I think they should be. I have done this approximatlely 11 million and fifty times already. When will I learn? My teacher says it's about peeling the oni...
It makes me sad that I can't even remember what knitting project I finished last. Bleh.
Commented Dec 6, 2010 on #reverb10 Make at Terrapin Station
#reverb10 Make
December 6 – Make. What was the last thing you made? What materials did you use? Is there something you want to make, but you need to clear some time for it? (Author: Gretchen Rubin) I made some Hot and Sour Soup (recipe in my notes), and I made some Apple Streusel Crumb Thingy with Pillsbury Cr...
I love the way you describe the warmth.
Commented Dec 4, 2010 on #Reverb10 - Moment at Terrapin Station
#Reverb10 - Moment
December 3 – Moment. Pick one moment during which you felt most alive this year. Describe it in vivid detail (texture, smells, voices, noises, colors). (Author: Ali Edwards) Being at the beach with my parents in July. Sitting out in front of my great-uncle's house in an Adirondack chair and loo...
It's totally Twitter for me. I feel your pain!
Commented Dec 2, 2010 on #reverb10 Writing at Terrapin Station
#reverb10 Writing
December 2 Writing. What do you do each day that doesn’t contribute to your writing — and can you eliminate it? (Author: Leo Babauta) Each day I spend a substantial amount of time on Facebook. I enjoy it, I learn from it, I connect with others on it. I don't apologize for it. Most days, I a...
What a great moment that was, MB.
Commented Nov 30, 2010 on Advent Retreat 2A at Terrapin Station
Advent Retreat 2A
You can see the complete meditation by my friend, Singing Owl, here. She refers to "Fear of the Lord" and explores what that might look like and mean in our lives, using as an example the passage from The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe where Lucy and Susan wonder about the nature of Aslan......
That is so heartwarming!
Commented Sep 22, 2010 on If you want to sing out at Terrapin Station
If you want to sing out
Love you, so glad they figured this out!
Commented Sep 15, 2010 on All the miracles... at Terrapin Station
All the miracles...
I have been having some medical tests to determine why I have such a lot of pain in my right shoulder and arm. It turns out there are some issues (treatable ones) with my spine. Researching it, I found the above video, which I think is gorgeous and shows so beautifully the miraculous way o...
I was a little worried about the maple in front of our house, because the city tree people were here last week to cut down a tree in front of my neighbor's, and told me ours needed pruning. Of course there is a waiting list for that...and many branches, way up high, that could well come down. Fortunately, we're not going to get quite as much Earl as anticipated earlier.
Commented Sep 4, 2010 on Friday Five: Storms of Life at Terrapin Station
Friday Five: Storms of Life
Martha says at RevGals: I'm listening this morning for word of Hurricane Earl. Is he coming to visit, or will he bypass my part of Maine and move further Downeast, or veer toward Nova Scotia? Should I buy those bottles of water, just in case wind brings branches and power lines down? And how m...
Furthermore, Glenn Beck is a Mormon, which is fine for him, but not representative of progressive Christian me. Griswold's questions are great. This is the bottom line: will people like me give over everything Christian to people on the right? My Cousin Jack has been asking this for years, most specifically in his long ago book, "Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism." I don't want to give over Jesus to people who see him so differently, because I don't want him to be used to justify killing whole villages of people because they happen to be Muslim (as described in the Fresh Air interview).
Commented Aug 31, 2010 on Who Gets to Speak for God? at Terrapin Station
Who Gets to Speak for God?
H/T to my Martha for pointing me (via Twitter) to the great Fresh Air interview with Eliza Griswold. I've listened to it several times now and it is very, very thought provoking and good. Griswold's new book is The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Fault Line Between Christianity and Is...
As you know, I have one, too, along different lines. It's challenging.
Commented Aug 31, 2010 on Mixed Marriage at Terrapin Station
Mixed Marriage
Here's my husband, in his perch (next to the state of Louisiana at the WWII Memorial) at the Restoring Honor Rally on Saturday, August 28. Yep. We have that kind of a mixed marriage. While I disagree very much with many, many of the positions he holds, I'll defend to the death his right ...
You can blow soap bubbles at my house, anytime. (Maybe that explains why my kids make such a smooth adjustment to college...)
Commented Aug 27, 2010 on Friday Five: Dorm Living at Terrapin Station
Friday Five: Dorm Living
...from Legett Hall at Texas A&M (a photo from TODAY, but the furniture is the same...) Martha says at RevGals: Yesterday I returned my middle child for his second year of college. He's an experienced dorm resident, having spent two years at a boarding high school. In the lounge at the end...
I'm so sorry about your wrist! Thank you for all the help you have given my feet.
Commented Aug 24, 2010 on Comfortable, Stylish Shoes for Bunions at Comfortable Shoes for Women Blog | Barking Dog Shoes
Comfortable, Stylish Shoes for Bunions
Thank you for the well wishes regarding my wrist. The MRI shows considerable damage and bone erosion from active rheumatoid arthritis. No surprises I suppose, but I can't believe how quickly the RA took over my wrist--one month flat. I'll visit my fabulous rheumatologist on Wednesday to find ou...
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