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A Holy, Jolly Christmas
This entry is part of a series of blogs that present ways that familiar Christmas music, both secular and religious, can enlarge our Spirits and deepen our exploration of the Advent and Christmas seasons. If I were to name my all-time…
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Peachy-Keen
Peachy-Keen…an old expression from the 1950s. It has fallen out of use, like so many of the slang phrases that each generation creates. I have a vague memory of a bobby-sox clad teen from an old movie saying it, and I…
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Mind the Gap Revisited: Stand in the Gap
As I think again about the admonition to Mind the Gap and my reflections on it (published 11.1.19 in Awareness), the idea about gaps and separations could bear more scrutiny. I recall an old and dire pronouncement about gaps that comes…
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Mind the Gap
The signs are everywhere in the London Underground. They pop up at every tube station– that ubiquitous and efficient message to Mind the Gap between the edge of the platform and the doorway to the train. The phrase has become a…
