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Robben Island
I struggle to find the words to describe Robben Island. If it doesn’t sound familiar, Robben Island is in Table Bay, a few miles off Cape Town, South Africa. It has a centuries-long history as a penal colony, and from the mid-1840s to the 1930s it also housed what was known as a leper colony.
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Brotherly Shove (AKA Tush Push)
As I watched the NFL playoffs in January, the announcers periodically referenced the “tush push”. In the Philadelphia game (for the NFC conference championship) the announcers referred to the “brotherly shove”. Both the tush push and the brotherly shove refer to the same short-yardage play, in which the team lines up behind the quarterback and
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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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Here We Come A Wassailing
I am currently reading North Woods by Daniel Mason. Is it a brilliant brook that tells the story of our country through the people who live in a particular place in New England, spanning from Puritan times to the present. I want to offer a quote from the book; this quote is in the voice