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Category Archives: Perceptions

Gran Meditation

08-Jan-08

It’s unseasonably warm during this first week of January, mid sixties and sunny. I have a rental car, a Ford Focus whose front wheel drive handles nicely and I can pound on. I got over to 36 Leyden Avenue to spend a late afternoon at my grandmother’s house where my uncle has lived upstairs for [...]

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You Keep Me Hangin’ On

31-Dec-03

The fortieth sector began at the end of August 2003. The buoy—that’s what my grammar school mates like to call it—is our midlife marker. We’re out in the ocean backstroking lightly to shore for hopefully another chunk of forty years or more.
There has been a lot of time to reflect, connect and create. I like [...]

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The Religiosity of Icons

04-Mar-02

I now have a collection of several medals, guardian angel pieces, prayer cards, saint blessings, and rocks that Jesus may have walked upon. I write this without any rancor for the people who hold these things dear. But for me, they are a burden.
Am I supposed to carry these artifacts with me at all times, [...]

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