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Sacred Spaces
I recently sold my parents’ house. They built it, and it had sheltered the Scott family (and only the Scott family) for over 60 years. A friend of mine referred to that house as a sacred space, and it got me thinking about sacred spaces. What are your sacred spaces? Is it a house? A…
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Persistent Resilience
I am a baseball fan. I have loved baseball for as long as I can remember. I recall being in grade school and wanting to stay inside during recess to watch a bit of a World Series game – back when those games were mostly played during the day. I recall sitting in a graduate…
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I am butter spread over too much bread
J.R.R.Tolkien famously wrote in The Lord of the Rings “I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.” Are you feeling that way? I hear from faculty these days that they are feeling tired, burned out, and overworked. I continue to hear about a post-COVID malaise or weariness that, for some,…
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Why?
Today is Armistice Day. At the 11th hour on the 11th day of the 11th month in 1918, the Great War ceased. A war that had no real reason to start, a war that consumed an entire generation of young men, that killed millions of civilians as well as members of the military, a war…