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Pity the Walking Dead
A young couple slowly makes their way upstream. They have a big dog and stop often, for no apparent reason. About thirty meters away, the young man, who’s in jeans that are wet above the knees, stops...
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A Good Life, and a Good Death
Recently I heard a hospice chaplain, who has counseled many dying people, say that he’s seeing many more “bad deaths.” I used to think that most people came to terms with their lives when they knew the...
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The Human Brain Matters
Life is on the cusp of exploding with spring here. For a few minutes there is nothing except bright, diffuse light, the water flowing by, and long shoots of new grass across the stream so green they...
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The World’s No Beach
A girl of about 9 slowly makes her way downstream from ‘the beach,’ a small spit of sand in the park at the adjacent site. Carrying a walking stick she has found, she’s left her parents and brothers to...
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Living Up To Our Potential
A woodpecker lands across the stream shortly after I arrive. I’ve never seen one drinking at the water’s edge before. Something about the late afternoon light, the rippling water, the thick foliage and...
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God Is Death
We know and accept the cycles of life and death, except when it comes to our selves of course. But is death actually an infinite ground, and communing with it, can we transcend death itself? When the...
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Why Hard Facts Aren’t Enough to Alter Our Beliefs
People love propagating information and sharing opinions. You can see this online: every single day, four million new blogs are written, eighty million new Instagram photos are uploaded, and 616...
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Creation, Love, Death and God Are One
Like millions of others in the global village, I tuned out the hyped royal wedding. But after the pomp and ceremony was over, excerpts from the sermon by the Most Rev. Michael Curry caught my eye. The...
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We will make a MacGyver,” Julio says after I have broken the second glass coffee carafe in a month. Here in Pacific northwest Costa Rica, I am surprised to hear a reference to the ’80s television...
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Two of the Funniest Product Reviews You’ll Ever Read (Magnesium Citrate and...
In the digital age, online shopping has emerged as a quintessential part of our lives. But, while scrolling through a product’s reviews to determine its worthiness, have you ever stumbled upon a...
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