by theRevCK | Dec 18, 2019 | Love and Life, Reflection
Winter Wonderland and Happy Place Late November every year, the hunt is on for that box in garage, basement or attic, that holds the music of the season. (Dating myself here, but most of mine is on CD.) My mother did this, too. In my vivid childhood memory, the...
by theRevCK | Oct 29, 2019 | Love and Life, Reflection
October and November bring, for a number of our spiritual and cultural traditions, rituals to remember the dead. Not all of our relationships are with the living alone. Our ancestors shape us. Our loved ones live on in us. They shape our present and our future ? for...
by theRevCK | Sep 3, 2019 | Love and Life, Reflection
Me, outside MeowWolf, in Santa Fe last month. I hate spiders. Welcome to our new online home! Maybe the nudge came from the hilarious characters in the new live-action Dora the Explorer movie. (A family film that excelled in ways I didn’t expect. But...
by theRevCK | Jun 25, 2018 | Love and Life, Reflection
A Eulogy for Elizabeth Annabelle “Betty” Bowers Hange, Feb. 29, 1920 — June 15, 2018 I’m not sure what epitaph will be engraved with the artist’s palette Grandma picked years ago for her grave marker, but this would be my choice. I heard...
by theRevCK | Dec 28, 2014 | Love and Life, Reflection, Religion
You can keep Santa. Now the presents are unwrapped, and in some cases returned, I won’t be ruining Virginia’s Christmas or anyone else’s by confessing: I love Christmas, but you can keep Santa. I wrote off the jolly old elf once and for all after...
by theRevCK | Oct 16, 2014 | Love and Life, Reflection
Over dinner last month, my 4-year-old asked, ?Are the new neighbors white-skinned or brown-skinned?? As I pondered how to answer, his big sister chimed in, ?I hope they?re white-skinned.? I paused, barely chewed. Could I answer without scolding or shaming them? I...
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