The Call of Every Day
Must be birdsong or the slightest nudge of breeze kissing your naked ankles and then the soft folds of your eyelids deep inside a dream...
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Angela Townsend
- Oct 15
- 4 min
Recalibrating
I calibrate three times a day. I recalibrate constantly. In the time before continuous glucose monitors, I assaulted my finger a dozen...
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Jen Casselberry
- Sep 15
- 2 min
Memory is a Strange Thing
Memory is a strange thing. When I was 5 years old, I had surgery on the muscles behind my eyes. All I remember from the day before the...
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Carol Zapata-Whelan
- Aug 11
- 11 min
Argentina, 1990: The Road Not Taken
It is a mild winter day in Buenos Aires, August of 1990, and my uncle Cacho, dark eyes convivial, is introducing me to an old friend in...
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Niles Reddick
- Jul 15
- 5 min
Calling 911 Because of a Smell
If the Lagina brothers would visit me in the dream world, I could show them right where to dig on Oak Island because I’ve discovered that...
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Natalie Y. Gutiérrez
- Jun 19
- 5 min
The Pain We Carry
Much of the Latine identity today comes from past trauma. History reminds us of the colonization of the land belonging to Indigenous...
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Jenn Zatopek
- May 20
- 6 min
Leaving My Mother Behind
(Content warning: this story contains sensitive material related to child sexual abuse, rape. Please read at your own discretion.) At the...
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Joel Klepac
- Apr 13
- 4 min
Saguaro in the Palm: Gratitude and the Mindfulness of Death
In the midst of training for a trail race, I traveled to a conference in Phoenix. Thinking of the pain I would be in if I didn’t keep up...
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Ruth Kennedy
- Mar 14
- 7 min
An Elephant in the Room
As a labor and delivery nurse of 25 years, I worked with many doctors. One of the anesthesiologists I worked with for 20 years placing...
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Rebecca M. Blackwell
- Feb 13
- 6 min
Fun (and NOT so much) with Dementia: One Couple’s Journey with Love and Loss
(Note: the following are excerpts from Rebecca M. Blackwell’s book published in 2022. Here is a link for the full copy). For most people,...
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Michael J. Adee
- Jan 30
- 4 min
Hope is Contagious
Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without the words, And never stops at all, And sweetest in...
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Yasmin Gudino
- Dec 30, 2022
- 3 min
Choice Is What Gives Me Hope
There is no escape for you except by a radical psychological transformation of yourself. – Neville Goddard I believe that some people are...
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Joel Klepac
- Nov 22, 2022
- 3 min
MoMA and Hadestown: Rothko, Matisse and Anais Mitchell
Arrested by the Dance (1909) by Henri Matisse, I sat and drew it in my 6x6 inch sketchbook. The figures form a wild chain in a distorted...
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Michelle Ferrigno Warren
- Oct 4, 2022
- 2 min
Join the Resistance: First Steps
This story is an excerpt from Michelle Warren’s new book Join the Resistance (IVP, 2022). When my oldest child was in first grade, I...
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Joel Klepac
- Aug 15, 2022
- 4 min
Reverence is not Only for the Religious
You wind around switchbacks, tree-covered mountainsides, and ravines and then eventually through a long tunnel. Without warning, you are...
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Michelle Patterson
- Jul 7, 2022
- 2 min
A Cat Named Baby
I remember the week I had two unrelated counseling clients schedule emergency sessions to process their pain at the loss of their cats....
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Jen Casselberry
- Jun 2, 2022
- 4 min
My Sister and Me
This story is about my sister and me. I am the second oldest of four children. My older sister is 10 months older than me. “Irish twins,”...
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Suzanne Bea Slover Leahy
- May 6, 2022
- 5 min
Coming to Life Among the Dying
My grandfather died rather suddenly when I was 9 years old. He was a fun grandfather who would do anything to make his grandchildren...
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Joel Klepac
- Apr 6, 2022
- 7 min
When Silence is Borne: Andrew Wyeth’s True Work
Naptime in the late 70’s meant the kind of deep silence found underwater. Just barely above the quiet, one could hear the creaking of the...
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