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Tinker Bell
I’m thinking about Tinker Bell today…not the scantily clad tiny blonde of Disney’s animated creation, or even the glowing but rather stout fairy described by J. M. Barrie in his original story Peter Pan. I will always associate Tinker Bell with…
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The Hiding Place
There is a very moving book published a few decades ago called The Hiding Place by Corrie ten Boom.1 It tells the story of a Dutch Christian family during WWII who hid and saved many Jews in their home in Haarlem.…
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The Shape of a Heart
As I walked down the hallways of a busy child care center last week, I was surrounded by dozens of pink, white, red and lilac-blue hearts that adorned each class’s bulletin board. From the carefully printed and precisely-cut school-age classroom displays…
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The Plant Advisors
It started during my years living in Maine, when the presence of indoor plants in the house moved from an afterthought to a requirement. Those long months filled with vistas of white, the gardens buried deep in snow and ice, and…
