Just You and I
(content warning: this story includes references to domestic violence.) As a cradle Catholic, I always knew you needed your faith to do...
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Jenn Zatopek
Jul 145 min read
A Brief Remembrance of My Father
My father had moments of crystalline clarity in which he would say something that would stop me in my tracks, making me pause to catch my...
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Susan H. Evans
Feb 133 min read
The World Turns
Using Granny’s ancient knife -- the handle worn thin and the blade sharp as a razor -- I sliced big ruby tomatoes. Drops of red juice and...
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Jenn Zatopek
Jan 145 min read
A Meditation of Delight
On a cold weekday morning in late winter, I meditated imperfectly leading to a wondrous moment of play, the effects of which nestled down...
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Jen Casselberry
Sep 15, 20232 min read
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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Krin Van Tatenhove
Aug 30, 202320 min read
The Final Incarnation
Mellow, easygoing, that’s how Jamie’s friends and family described him. Some tied it to his frequent pot smoking. Others linked it to his...
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Carol Zapata-Whelan
Aug 11, 202311 min read
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, 20235 min read
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, 20235 min read
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, 20236 min read
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, 20234 min read
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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Rebecca M. Blackwell
Feb 13, 20236 min read
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, 20234 min read
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, 20223 min read
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, 20223 min read
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, 20222 min read
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
Apr 6, 20227 min read
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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