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Love is a Verb.

When I hear St Paul’s infamous passage 1st Corinthians 13, you know that “Love is patient, love is kind,” bit…

1st Corinthians 13, Brian Wren, Clyde Edgerton's Raney, Love is a Verb, Love Songs, Valentine's Day

Fortify, a 40-Day Mixtape for Lent

Lent is the purple penitential season. A forty day walk in the wilderness. It begins with a call to repentance and…

Aging Hippy, Emmanuel on High, Lent, Mixtape, Musical Meditations, Spotify

Rattling Beads & Grounding Souls

In times like these, when we feel the world reeling and careening out of control, prayer can help to keep…

Anglican Rosary, Catholic Rosary, Emmanuel on High, First Communion, Meditation, Prayer, Prayer Beads, President Kennedy

Fly Me to the Moon & Let Me Sing Among the Stars

I remember Ash Wednesdays at my old parochial school, Holy Family. In the smoky incense-soaked church, Father So-and-So would smear…

Ash Wednesday, Emmanuel on High, faith, Lent

Top Shelf 2020: A Weekend in the Mile High City w/Joani & Colleen

Woo hoo!! U&U followers! If you enjoy reading my manic tales, I bet you might also really enjoy hearing me…

He Said She Said They Said, Lincoln Theatre, Mothers and Daughters, Story District, The Mile High City, Top Shelf 2020

The Catalog(ue)

Nerdy, nerdy bibliophile, I picked up a delicious but definitely unneeded book while on docent duty at the Library of…

Biblio-therapy, bibliomania, Card Catalogs, Herbert Putnam, Library of Congress, LOC Docents, Melvil Dewey

"Star, Star, Teach Us How to Shine, Shine!"

A year ago, I read in The Times that the skies lit up over New York City. “There was a…

"The Truth is Out There.", By Another Road, Feast of the Epiphany, Magi, Supernovas, The X-Files

Reindeer, Rainy Days & Mondays Mostly…

Bipolar, I am very rarely down. I live my life balanced in hypomanic and holy space. This space is the…

Advent, bipolar disorder, Christmas, holiday blues, Inside Out, Manic Depression

Pregnant with Possibility

Once upon an Advent, I became an Anglican. Year’s end of 1984, to be exact. Raised Roman Catholic and having…

Advent, Blessed Virgin Mary, Emmanuel on High, Homiletics, Immanuel on-the-hill, Matthew 1:18-25, Preaching, Theotokos, Virgin Birth, Virginia Theological Seminary

“God Keeps No One Waiting Unless It Is Good for Them.”

Impatience, thy name was Dr. Peacock. When I was growing up, my father, a busy and successful surgeon, did not…

"A Coming Christ in Advent", "An Adult Christ at Christmas", Advent, Anticipation, Christmas, Patience, Waiting

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