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Category Archives: Poverty
Little Punkins
Although I’ve been making quilt squares in my spare time during the past year, on the winter evenings when dark arrives early, my perennial urge to knit returns once again. This inner prompting reminds me of the Catskill Mountain days in late winter … Continue reading
Posted in Community, Gifts, Grace, Gratitude, Living Mindfully, Peacefulness, Poverty, Simplicity
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Homelessness: One Man’s Story
In recent months, I’ve been deeply moved by a Story Circle Network blogging friend’s writing as she courageously brings forward her son’s long-term homelessness in California’s Bay Area. Margie Witt has written several compelling articles about her son’s journey from … Continue reading
Posted in Community, Compassion, Courage, Family, Mental Illness, Poverty
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Carol’s Coats
Carol Tyree. We worked together for over a decade. We retired together on the last work day of 2011. She was more deeply devoted to her family and her church than anyone I had known. And we shared several seasons … Continue reading
Posted in Childhood, Compassion, Friendship, Gifts, Gratitude, Kindness, Knitting, Poverty
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Sad News from the Breakfast Club
Originally posted on Twenty Minutes a Day: A Step Towards a Balanced Life:
Some of you may recall that I wrote a few months back about an eighty-five year old woman – one of our Breakfast Club patrons – who…
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A Modest Proposal
With deference to Jonathan Swift for borrowing his book title, I have long thought about this proposal for every politician in America. The proposal would not go to the house or senate for a vote; it would go to our … Continue reading
Posted in Change, Courage, Poverty
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I Can’t Breathe
I grew up on the east end of Long Island, near the Hamptons, in a lower middle class family of five. When I started school, more than half my classmates were “colored,” as we called them in the 50s. They … Continue reading
Posted in Childhood, Family, Kindness, Poverty
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Exactly Where I Need to Be…
– I sit on the couch in front of my woodstove this morning, warmed and peace-filled by its gentle flames and emanating heat, and reflect that this holiday brings the perfect backdrop theme of re-birth to my life this day. … Continue reading
Posted in Animal friends, Compassion, Gifts, Gratitude, Health, Kindness, Poverty
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Silent Gifts
“Everybody’s forgotten about us down here,” the chunky young man said to me, his brown eyes sad. “I didn’t want to hurt my back working in the coal mines and wind up disabled with no insurance.” We sat in the … Continue reading
Posted in Compassion, Gifts, Gratitude, Health, Kindness, Poverty
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