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Before Becoming
“I don’t know how you can remain so unaffected.” Dripping with judgment and delivered with acrid tone, her words had me on my heels. Some childlike part of me shrunk in shame while another part felt the sting of indignation in recognizing she had not asked a single question to understand my interior landscape. Once…
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Dull Edges and Action
Armed with a carload of guns and a list of addresses for people who held differing views, he decided to resolve his internal discomfort by driving from address to address and pulling a trigger. It’s hard to understand how a human heart and mind can arrive at this kind of decision, let alone maintain an…
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Where I Meet Us
Do you know what a mobius strip is? Four months ago, while reading a book written by Parker Palmer, I was introduced to the concept. And while I do not feel qualified to speak about a geometric form discovered by a German mathematician; I recently had an experience that felt like traveling a mobius strip. …
