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Our Advent Companion: Hope
This week marks the beginning of Advent, the holy season that starts the first Sunday of December and ends Christmas Day. Many Christian traditions include the weekly lighting of candles on an Advent wreath. Each week during Advent, I will share…
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Singing with Grateful Hearts
It was a couple of days before Thanksgiving, and the newly formed community children’s choir rehearsal drew to an end. Their Christmas concert was just a couple of weeks hence. The group of 14 or so elementary-aged children sang, talked, wiggled,…
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After the Fall… Of Leaves, That Is
Despite the cold snap that sent this week’s morning temperatures into the upper 30s, the big Bradford pear that graces our front yard is stubbornly hanging onto its summer-green, heart-shaped leaves. The spreading branches teem with a luxuriant mantle that refuses…
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November 24 Art Show Invitation
November 2024 is a special month for me as a writer and artist. I am the November Artist of the Month in the Atrium Gallery at the Bosque Art Center in Clifton, Texas. Alongside my watercolor and colored pencil paintings, I’ll…
