What does it matter?
No matter what we do, we will always know someone who does it bigger or braver. Certainly if we had known it would burn like fire, we would have stepped away from the hellish abyss.
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Dark days
The Great Stink Bug Sermon
Brothers and sisters, the moral of that story is here in a clamshell. And also, this is the only time you’re going to see a picture of my toilet online.
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Toasters and coasters and give us this day
We have been ferried up, up, up the excruciating climb, full of dread and horror. Now we creep over the edge and hang poised.
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In which I attempt to love my enemy
How do you work closely with people you distrust, for days and months on end? What if your generosity is enabling them to keep failing? Or, God forbid, to succeed?
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In which I arise today
This is the stage that all of Shari’s thinking blog readers have been dreading for years, when her humor and good sense desert her and she disintegrates into dramatic, navel-gazing grief for weeks on end.
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Advent
The point of Christmas is that Christ entered. Here. He is the last person in the world to be upset with a mess, or rattled by the unforeseen. He is acquainted with grief.
Hard things
I just purged my house, nesting, frenetically sorting through every closet, every drawer, to remove all that we don’t need. And now I am buying more.