Exploring the Third Season of Life
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I’m a veteran teacher, flutist, naturalist, and writer.
Join me on this third-season-of-life journey of faith.
Carole
Recent Posts
The Blessings of Vacant Chairs, Houses, and Selves
Vacant: a position not filled, empty premises, a person with no expression. How can vacant chairs, houses, and selves be blessings? Vacant Chairs All of us have them, the empty chairs at family gatherings: grandparents, parents, sometimes siblings and children....
Engage: to bind with, attract, participate, become involved
Engage The word “engage" stems from the French word “engager,” meaning to bind. And "engagement" in the context of marriage refers to a formal promise or pledge to marry. Keith announced our engagement at his retirement from the government in 2003 and gave me a...
What the Bible, a writer, and a pastor say about the journey
My journey in the past few days has been defined by a flu-like bug. Slow recovery like the first signs of spring here at Vanaprastha. A quiet journey rather than the drama we often read about. A biblical journey Take Elijah. Queen Jezebel had said she would...