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Morning Prayer 30/100. Here and now.

Here and now — this place at this instant — is reality. Nothing else is. Here and now can be very hard to stay in. What happened 5 minutes ago was reality then. The turkey and cheese sandwich I made then is still reality, sitting here on the desk beside my laptop. However, the act of […]

Posted on August 27, 2015 at 3:21 pm by Tim · Permalink · Comments Closed
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Morning Prayer 29/100. Being grounded

Being grounded began early this morning. I set out to run before sunrise. I was immediately conscious of the ground. The rhythm of my footfall sounding solidly against the asphalt. I was thankful to have firm ground to run on. To walk on, to stand on at other times, for that matter. Crossing a side street, I was freshly […]

Posted on August 25, 2015 at 12:14 pm by Tim · Permalink · Comments Closed
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Morning Prayer 28. Love

Love gets loads of attention. It also gets short-shrift sometimes. Maybe that’s because we look and talk about love from so many different perspectives. Saturday I drove to pick up my sister Robin from Marbridge, her assisted living home. Beautiful sunny, light traffic day. Easy breezy 30 mile drive from home to way south Austin. […]

Posted on August 24, 2015 at 10:33 am by Tim · Permalink · Comments Closed
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Morning Prayer 27/100. Community

A community run. Actually not, yet it almost seemed that way. I passed at least a dozen morning walkers and their dogs. Everyone said, “Good morning!” and the dogs looked like they would have if they could. Only a few minutes into my run, I approached an oncoming car, sitting dead still in the road. In […]

Posted on August 21, 2015 at 10:28 am by Tim · Permalink · Comments Closed
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