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It’s been a little over five weeks since Loretta came to live with us. Tomorrow (Monday, that is) will only be six weeks since Lila died, and we are still grieving Ella who died in late October. Even with the presence of both absences, Loretta is making room for
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The passage for my sermon this week is John 9:1-11, which is part of the story of Jesus healing a blind man. There are a lot of sermons to be found in this passage, but I got caught by the question the disciples asked: “Who sinned that this man
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tortilla sunset when I walked into the supermarket my dinner menu was still up in the air everything depended on whether or not they had Sweet Hawaiian tortillas I picked up two ripe avocados in an act of faith a couple of jalapeños too pushed the cart past the deli
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specifics the way you call to check on me the text that asks how are you the time you left a note the month you paid my bill when you emptied the trash while I was out of town the day you came to see me the night you drove
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I’m late on getting to this story, but I am assuming I am not the only one who learned about The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse while watching the Oscars last Sunday night. I loved it, even though they didn't use an Oxford comma
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parking lot poetry I dress myself with rain make a hat of the clouds and a scarf of the wind a coat of many shadows I can see the stepping pools across the asphalt if I watch my step I can hit every one of the puddles I am a
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incidental contact we saw a beautiful purple house a woman and a man arranging plants she spoke with a smile in her words “I had all these plants in my house it was like a jungle” she said as we passed by never to see her again after my third
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Our last full day in Savannah began with the Gospel Brunch at the Good Times Jazz Bar and Restaurant, which is a few blocks from our hotel. The music, food, and conversation around the table were all nourishing. (I had a roasted boneless quail stuffed with collard greens over grits--and
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Tonight we ate dinner at 2 Chefs Gullah Geechee restaurant in Savannah. Morolayo Akinrinnola and OriBemi Adetutu are the chef owners (and are married to each other), and they were the ones in the kitchen cooking all the goodness that graced our plates. Mine included fried chicken, collard greens, macaroni
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We decided to walk to breakfast this morning instead of eating at the hotel. When we walked outside and it was raining lightly, we were undaunted. The place we were going was about a mile and a half down MLK Blvd. in a direction we had not gone before, so
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I spent the better part of today walking with nowhere to go. It was a gift.I looked at houses, talked to dogs (and some people), found a bookstore, stopped for coffee, got lost without having to worry about it, read a bunch of historical markers, and saw a bunch
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Today Ginger and I walked all over downtown Savannah and its nearby surroundings. And I mean all over--as of this writing, I have 17,019 steps. I also ate well and had some great conversations. We walked first to Forsyth Park, which is six blocks long and two blocks wide