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Handmade Books and Crafting Purpose
I am a novice bookmaker and continue to learn how to make handmade journals. In the years since finding myself categorized as “disabled”, a loss of purpose haunted me. Formerly, working and singing as a musician and a guitarist kept my purposefulness alive. But in the years since 2015, my health…
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Book Dust
Dust begins to fall from the book I’m sewing as the thread pulls through the paper. Heather and I have finally created enough paste papers to start making/sewing books again. As I sew together a book for a dear friend, dust from the thread needling through the paste paper makes colorful dust that falls…
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Morning Prayer
Peace descends upon my heart this morning which is not made of my making. The awakening to the day, however, was filled with worry over my dog, Birdie. Congestion bothers her breathing and I can hear it. I come to the computer to rearrange my budget. Yet, all I can do is wait for the…
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First Volume of Praying Together: An Ecumenical Prayer Journal
Announcing the first prayer journal in a new series called Praying Together. The daily prayers are adapted from the Book of Common Prayer (BCP) of the Episcopal Church of American and the Lutheran Book of Worship (LBW) of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America. Volume 1 uses Psalms and John as part of the daily…
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Changing the Story and Changing Perception
“Change the story and you change perception; change perception and you change the world.” ~Jean Houston Change is not one of humanity’s favorite gifts. Yet, most humans don’t see change as a gift, but more as moving into the unfamiliar. The irony is that the only thing we can truly count on in life…