“Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.” – Thich Nhat Hanh, Peace is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life
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What Nadia Wanted
Her name was not Nadia which means hope or desire. She was named for a mythical bird whose feet never touch the ground. Her privacy is
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The Edge of the World
“Home is everything you can walk to.” ― Rebecca Solnit, Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics On February 7 I sat down for the tenth time
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Fixing to Walk. Care to Come Along?
“But the beauty is in the walking — we are betrayed by destinations.” ― Gwyn Thomas A palm reader once told me I was one of those
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Wild Women Walking
When I set out to write this essay, I thought I was going to write a droll list of reasons why I could never have written
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Old Yeller and The Repo Man: Thanksgiving 1986
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fnhojq63-Bs The movie is Old Yeller and it plays out on the television in the corner of the hospital room. My son, then eleven, watches from
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One Thing
“He never knew when it was coming.” I learned last week that there is one thing about me my husband would change if he could. Not
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His Mission Now
His story, he tells me, is not so different from the stories of other veterans who served in Iraq or Afghanistan. He doesn’t know if he
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Gifts For and From the Dead
You may see the usual Halloween suspects on Halloween night – zombies, witches, the cast of characters from Game of Thrones. I’m betting you won’t see anyone
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Life Happens
“It was amazing how you could get so far from where you’d planned, and yet find it was exactly were you needed to be.” (Sarah Dessen,
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