Tag: spirituality
group name: cr8nonfiction
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September 28, 2006 10:08 AM EDT --
What follows is a letter to my younger son Greg. He, his sister Mary and his older brother George all live several hundred miles away from me, as well as from each other. . . . more
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August 06, 2006 12:00 AM EDT --
<font size="3"><span style="">I look back on my high school years in the 1940s with the sentient of an ex-con recalling hard time in a maximum security prison.
We didn't . . . more
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October 02, 2006 03:04 PM EDT --
It suddenly occurred to me that I have been overlooking my primary purpose in joining Gather, which was to share what I have learned in almost a century living to the hilt. So, rather than spend . . . more
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October 03, 2006 08:58 PM EDT --
I could have let my daughter feel as rotten and neglected as I've sometimes felt considering her dads recent actions. But, not if I could help it this time. One morning my husband took a thermal coffee . . . more
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February 17, 2008 04:41 PM EST --
I ALMOST FELL ASLEEP THE FIRST TEN MINUTES
"How about we go to the movies?" . . . more
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May 19, 2006 02:57 PM EDT --
Still. Still calm and raging with desire. Still trying to shred long lost layers, tossing nightmares and fears into the proverbial fire. Escaping for once, not by running away, rather facing the demons . . . more
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August 18, 2006 06:55 PM EDT --
While the religious right eats away at the edges of American culture I had thought their influence on education, particularly science education, was confined, primarily to Kansas, where we get to watch . . . more
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October 13, 2006 12:19 PM EDT --
So commonly, we have a tendency to view change as intimidating. I supposed it's fear of the unknown. In reality, we are in on a journey where we can't always stick with what's familiar. Life . . . more
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February 18, 2007 09:08 PM EST --
... it's still pretty frightening.
Once we recognize God's great secret, that we are all made to be God's sons and daughters, we can't avoid the call to see one another differently. No-one . . . more
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December 02, 2005 06:22 PM EST --
I have suffered from mental illness all my life. I have what I have chosen to accept as a medically diagnosed illness called Bi-polar II. I can go for months or even years with no or . . . more
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August 26, 2007 04:59 PM EDT --
Counting My Blessings
There was a time I felt hopeless and wished I were dead. I couldn’t see any likelihood of any happy endings for me. I tried suicide, but was even a failure at . . . more
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January 05, 2006 04:51 AM EST --
I sat in my private dorm room, feeling like a failure. It was supposed to be my last semester in college, the semester I had looked forward to – student teaching. No one understood why . . . more
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November 11, 2006 07:44 PM EST --
"Did you ever save that card your father gave you?" My mother and I were having one of our weekly chats on the phone catching up on the small things. Every now and then, our conversations tend . . . more
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November 11, 2006 07:21 PM EST --
Two primary impulses drove me towards Yazd. First, I wanted to see the architecture of this old Silk Road city, to walk in Marco Polo's footsteps and see what he saw. My second goal was to see, interact . . . more
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October 10, 2006 12:01 AM EDT --
Terry
"Hi, what's your name?," the tired, thin man asked my two young boys. The boys just looked at me suspiciously averting their eyes from the man's intense stare. . . . more
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October 07, 2006 05:45 PM EDT --
This poem came from the depths of my being after I said goodbye to someone I loved and knew I'd never see again.
Implosion
Chest heavy, full, tight....
A lump settled into my throat . . . more
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December 20, 2006 11:17 AM EST --
I give the man $35 to purchase our family Christmas Tree and I wonder if I should loose weight. I purchase not just a Christmas tree but also a meditation for the season. I study the tree. It reminds . . . more
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August 29, 2006 12:34 PM EDT --
Years ago, someone read my palm and told me that while I would love deeply, I would have many relationships and never find "the one" for me. I don't usually put too much stock in things . . . more
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July 24, 2006 01:47 PM EDT --
"ASK AND IT WILL BE GRANTED ONTO YOU"
Cautiously optimistic of eventually receiving a positive response . . . more
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November 05, 2006 01:09 AM EST --
Scraps of Love
This is a factual story--a story that I share with pride.
While sitting around the dinner table, my husband was discussing some scrap metal that he needed to sort and turn in for . . . more
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