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Category: Insight
I’ll Take It
As it comes, I’ll take it. Easy conversation, I’ll take it. Blue sky, cool breeze, I’ll take it. Light sheen of sweat blankets me, I’ll take. Smoke wafting from the barbecue, I’ll take it. A billion emails expected on Monday morning, I’ll take it. Kids quietly watching TV, I’ll take it. Detente, I’ll take it. …
Why Is It So Hard?
These things we are called to in life, these difficulties thrust before us, why does it have to be so hard? It’s just life. It is what it is. One of those four great truths Buddha identified: “Life is difficult.” In Matthew 10:16, Jesus makes a similar observation as he spells out how his friends …
Bedtime at Fernwood
Quite a ruckus most nights getting ALL to bed. There are the usual night-time chores — putting on pajamas, brushing teeth, getting water bottles filled with ice and water, arranging stuffed animals and blankets — it can sometimes take quite a while. But when we’re done, and the lights go off, relaxation falls over everyone …
Say Their Names, Honor Their Fight For Equal Rights
In this great American experiment, we must rely on the fundamental ideals the founders laid out in the beginning. After that initial revolution that birthed the United States of America, some eighty years later, we fought a civil war to solidify the course of our country. We are at a similar, if not as …
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Americans, Undocumented
Who are they? Who are they really? They're just like us, whoever "us" is. And their stories? Uniquely theirs. Worth a listen. Definitely worth a listen. So listen up. And learn. one.npr.org/i/882551486:882657333
Hamilton: Redemption, and Honor, Failed. In the End, Who Tells Your Story?
Best of Wives and Best of Women (Lin-Manuel Miranda - Hamilton Cast)[ELIZA]Alexander, come back to sleep[HAMILTON]I have an early meeting out of town[ELIZA]It's still dark outside[HAMILTON]I know. I just need to write something down[ELIZA]Why do you write like you're running out of time?[HAMILTON]Shhh[ELIZA]Come back to bed. That would be enough[HAMILTON]I'll be back before you know …
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Hamilton: A New Nation’s Growing Pains
Cabinet Battle #1 (Lin-Manuel Miranda - Hamilton Cast)[WASHINGTON]Ladies and gentlemen, you coulda been anywhere in the world tonight, but you're here with us in New York City. Are you ready for a cabinet meeting???The issue on the table: Secretary Hamilton's plan to assume state debt and establish a national bank. Secretary Jefferson, you have the …
Hamilton: Two Songs, Different Perspectives, One Truth
[Reposted from last week, these two songs in the context of the whole Hamilton sequence, and because they are so pivotal to his story.] Hamilton’s intellect and courage and vision and words, all were not enough to save his marriage after his adultery. Though still married in title, only a shell remained. The trust and …
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Hamilton: A Side Note
A side note to provide a bit of added explanation - in case needed - as to why all the Hamilton lyrics post. Love the musical. A Saw it in San Francisco a couple years ago with my wife; she was so excited she saw it a second time the next weekend. The music has …
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