gobeyond12
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I know it has been a few months since the last post on this topic. Hoping to get back in the flow again! The other day I was at the doctor’s office for a routine checkup. When they had finished poking and prodding and telling me all the same stuff, I got in the checkout…
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“Thus I have said that stories of magic alone can express my sense that life is not only a pleasure but a kind of eccentric privilege. I may express this other feeling of cosmic coziness by allusion to another book always read in boyhood, Robinson Crusoe, which I read about this time, and which owes…
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Awe is a transcendent emotional experience. It’s an intense jumble of emotions we normally don’t find all in one place – wonder, joy, fear, surprise, and sometimes horror. At the core of it is a realization that something is far bigger and more powerful than we are. I emphatically believe that it was designed by…
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I have recently gotten hooked on the TV series starring the “little Belgian detective” Hercule Poirot, played by David Suchet. It was a long running series in the UK that eventually made it to the US, and is loved by millions. Surprisingly, I have not read a single Agatha Christie book, even though I love…
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Back in the pioneer days, oranges were a rare treat. I remember reading in the Laura Ingalls Wilder stories how they would be overjoyed if they got a single orange in their stocking for Christmas. It was hard for me to imagine what that was like. In my lifetime, oranges have been only a grocery…
