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a modern terror of ancient suffering

>> a poem by Ernesto Cardenal, an interpretation of the biblical Psalm 22, of David, from Cardenal's "Salmos de este mome...

"We get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number, real...

Making life choices can be agonizing. I know. I've had to make too many lately. You're there, looking at the options, and prayi...

I love life. I am not contemplating suicide. Really. But sometimes I am the smallest bit impatient to face death. 2007, Hayden Lake, I...

This week I turned 29. ... (I'll pause while you sing me Happy Birthday.) ... The 366 days that I lived as a 28-year-old were ki...

We've labeled one day in the year "Easter" and on it we remember the resurrection of Christ from the darkness of the gr...

I live in a house with a yard. I have a nice car (a 2001 Honda Civic, but I think it’s pretty nice :) and I own a computer and a convectio...

I watched a fly die this afternoon. I was trying to read a book in the Seminary commons, but a persistent and sporadic buzzing kept distra...

The most dangerous woman on earth is the woman who has reckoned with her own death. All women die; few women ever really live .* ...

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