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Excerpt from Discard Devotional: Season Three, Dwelling

Day 72: Galatians 3:28, “There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.” As you are learning more about God’s love for you, and your identity in Him, and how precious you are to Him, it’s important toContinue reading “Excerpt from Discard Devotional: Season Three, Dwelling”

Aikido and Rhetoric: Flow

Kykeon [Greek horchata] is not itself when it is not in motion. Heraclitus, fragment 84 Water, by its nature, never collides with or breaks against anything. On the contrary, it swallows up any attack harmlessly. Morihei Ueshiba, The Art of Peace, 72 When we think of being attacked, we think of ourselves as stationary andContinue reading “Aikido and Rhetoric: Flow”

A Weekend in Las Vegas

Vegas gets a bad rap, and deservedly so: it sprawls out in every direction like it’s scrambling for dollars at a strip club, oblivious to the needs of the environment and the wellbeing of the people who live there—heck, even threatening the livelihoods of ranchers hundreds of miles away in its endless thirst for growthContinue reading “A Weekend in Las Vegas”

Letter of Recommendation: Patching Things Up

As I’ve mentioned before, I have an aversion to throwing things out. Part of the aversion is a familial and cultural inheritance, but part of it is just my personality: I tend to anthropomorphize things, and so if I’ve loved something–loved living with it and using it, loved how it looked and the way itContinue reading “Letter of Recommendation: Patching Things Up”

How MourningDove Spends Her Saturday

I was going to start out by saying this was a parody of the NYTimes “How a X Spends Their Sunday” feature, but then I realized the Sundays documented in that feature are the parodies…. Honestly I don’t see how any human being can fit in that many brunches and play dates and pilates classesContinue reading “How MourningDove Spends Her Saturday”

Drama Queen: Queenmaker

Have you read Naomi Alderman’s The Power? If not, you should (before you watch the Amazon Prime version….) It imagines a world where women hold the power because, via a genetic mutation, they become physically superior to men. Spoiler alert: It’s not utopia. But still there’s something enticing about a politics based on consensus andContinue reading “Drama Queen: Queenmaker”

Letter of Recommendation: Plain Greek Yoghurt

In the interest of historical accuracy, my tombstone should read, right under the dates: “This is how long you can make it basically on Greek yoghurt.” I was a picky eater as a kid, had a touchy stomach in my 20s, and have been a lousy planner ever since–which means a spoonful of plain GreekContinue reading “Letter of Recommendation: Plain Greek Yoghurt”

Wednesday’s Child: Excerpt from The Discard Devotional, Season Two: Strength

Day 41: Ps. 41:5, “My enemies speak evil against me, ‘When will he die, and his name perish?’” We’re going to go through almost the entirety of Psalm 41 in this chapter: it’s so smart on the subjects of betrayal and social isolation—and on the Heavenly perspective on these devastating attacks on humanity. Here theContinue reading “Wednesday’s Child: Excerpt from The Discard Devotional, Season Two: Strength”