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Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Magical Thinking

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Sometimes when I am listening to music on iTunes, I see a song coming up whose "Last Played" date is 1/12/10. I usually hit Refre...

Frontline on Haiti

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You can watch the PBS documentary on Haiti and the earthquake here .
Monday, March 29, 2010

Emotions

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I emailed my husband this morning that I was feeling about fourteen emotions today. After that I made a list of what I was feeling, and I c...
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Sunday, March 28, 2010

Dispatches from my Classroom

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I got a wonderful email on Saturday from Dave Carter, a friend and psychologist who just came back from Haiti. He did a lot of debriefing a...
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My Song is Love Unknown

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This hymn is one I haven't heard sung since I was in elementary school. It is appropriate for Palm Sunday, which is today, or any day du...
Saturday, March 27, 2010

Of Love and the Barn Roof

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The summer I was twenty, I stayed with my cousins and my aunt and uncle on their farm in New Jersey. I looked for a job for a while and fin...
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Friday, March 26, 2010

Poetry Friday: Daffodils

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Wandering lonely as a cloud? Check. Crowds of golden daffodils? Everywhere. Relevance of the rest of the poem to my life right now? Not m...
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Thursday, March 25, 2010

Ayiti Leve Kanpe (Haiti Get Back Up)

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This is a beautiful video with footage of Haiti pre and post-earthquake. The music is performed by the Dominican Republic Symphonic Orchest...
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Flowers

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My husband, who is in Haiti, sent me flowers for my birthday. They were beautiful: two dozen red roses in a silver vase. As I looked at th...
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Wednesday, March 24, 2010

How Haiti Saved America

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This is a fabulous article from the Boston Globe about the history of Haiti's interactions with the United States - and why the US owes...

One Little Word: LOVED

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I was reading my archives today - I know I read my blog way more than anyone else does - and came across a post from the beginning of Janu...
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Tuesday, March 23, 2010

It's Going to Be All Right

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This morning when I walked I decided to listen to music instead of a podcast. I'm not sure that's such a smart thing to do. I ende...
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Monday, March 22, 2010

Afterquake

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A dear friend shares her earthquake experiences here .
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The Resentment

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I thought that Tara and I were going to keep this secret, but she blogged about it today , calling me only "a friend" - way to kee...
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Saturday, March 20, 2010

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"I don’t even want to be right now I don’t want to think another thought I don’t want to feel this pain I feel But right now pain is al...
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Friday, March 19, 2010

Poetry Friday: Spring

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Spring appears to be on its way. Just when you think you can't survive one more gloomy day, the sun comes out and there are flowers and...
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Thursday, March 18, 2010

Sunshine and the Human Heart

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Today was the first day since Monday that both of my children went to school. My son has been home with a cold and I was trapped in the hou...
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Wednesday, March 17, 2010

What's Going On

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There have been many developments in Haiti, some of which, of course, I'm not comfortable sharing in such a public place. But now that ...
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Friday, March 12, 2010

Poetry Friday: Separation from those we love

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A friend sent me the following this week. It is appropriate to all of us earthquake refugees and to many others as well. Separation from th...
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Tuesday, March 09, 2010

Nothing Can Separate

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A friend sent me an iTunes gift certificate and I was shopping for songs. I downloaded several I'd never heard before. I've been a...
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I've been privileged to live in three of the world's great cities (Nairobi, Port-au-Prince and Asunción, Paraguay) as well as spending time in many others (including nine weeks in Paris as a college student). I just moved to a new city: Kampala, Uganda. I've also lived in smaller towns in three countries. In all of those places there have been difficult days, but I've never found a city or town yet where God is not, and I don't anticipate finding one in the future, either. The name of my blog comes from the song "Love is Always There," by Carolyn Arends.
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