“There’s a right way and a wrong way of doing things,” Dad used to tell me whenever I’d spoil the look of our yard by trying out a faster, easier and more creative way of pulling weeds or edging the lawn. “If a thing is worth doing,” he said, “it’s worth doing it r...
We will be in Monteverde and need to get tested there as we won’t be in San Jose until the night before we leave. What is the closest place to Monteverde where there is Covid testing? Puntarenas? San Carlos? San Ramon? It’s hard to tell with the map we’re using. Or what lab...
It is morning, and the sun is out. Nothing more can be discerned because I cannot move my neck and my eyes can’t see any part of me other than my nose. That’s when I cross my eyes and see it — the mucous. It’s spread from my shoulder to everywhere on my body, like an ...
But God’s friends don’t linger long in “bare, ruin’d choirs.”[ix]There is work to do, people to care for, hope to nurture, hearts to lift, and resurrections to embody. In last Sunday’s Zoom worship with her homeless congregation, St. Mark’s rector, the Rev. Carri Grindon,...
Nancy lives on a 96-acre farm in New Wilmington, Pennsylvania. She says her closest neighbors are Amish, and “we have the distinction of being the last house on the electric line!” Nancy is currently working part time as a registered nurse assessment coordinator, which means proving to the...
Whatever it is you’re scared of doing, Do it. Make your mistakes, next year and forever. –Neil Gaiman 2019 took me to the edge and back; parts of it were among the toughest of my life: Caring for an elderly parent and a feisty toddler simultaneously; adjusting to a new life after...
And while I was far from my family and friends during my world adventures, it’s different when you settle into your day-to-day routine and live on the opposite coast from the people closest to you. But thankfully, new and old friends welcomed me into their homes and their lives and ...
Each year in early January, Earth reaches its perihelion (closest distance to the sun) along its elliptical orbit. At 2:47am on January 5th (in New York) Earth was approximately 91,398,199 miles away from the sun. That is 3,109,435 miles closer than it will be at aphelion, its ...
Listening to all of these voices together and building a coherent plan for an entire operating system release is quite a challenge – it can feel like taking a pizza order for a billion of your closest friends!It should come as no surprise that in order to have a learning organizatio...
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