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Wide Spot, February 2022: Grown Up

March 5, 2022 By Wide Spot Admin

My baby sister had brand new red roller skates. She lurched through the kitchen as I stood silent, radiating envy. The floor trim between the kitchen and the next room was beyond her skill level, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Discussion, Uncategorized Tagged With: action, blame, brave, Compassion, disrespect, division, Gandhi, mess, responsibility

Wide Spot, October 2021: Revisionist History

October 28, 2021 By Wide Spot Admin

Last night, out of the blue, an email arrived bearing a 43-year-old video. Sent via a chain of friends and relatives, the clip showed me at my first wedding, singing my heart out to the accompaniment … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Discussion, Uncategorized Tagged With: 500 words, connection, forgiveness, Joy, values, Wide Spot Column

Wide Spot, August 2021: Cooking the Potatoes

October 28, 2021 By Wide Spot Admin

It’s a fallacy that deer don’t eat potatoes, or at least strip the plants naked. I guess I should be grateful for the stalks and tubers left behind, and hope that the deer get sick enough to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Discussion, Uncategorized Tagged With: 500 words, community, Compassion, Pandemic, Wide Spot Column

Grace in a Fractured World

April 20, 2021 By Wide Spot Admin

This wonderful conversation between Krista Tippett and the theologian Serene Jones is WELL worth the time required to read or listen--lovely work on the move from grief to genuine mourning, and our … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Discussion

Response to reading Mark 11:1-11

March 29, 2021 By Wide Spot Admin

by Anne Voegtlen March 27, 2021  Let’s say there is a village on our path. Let’s say we are asked to go ahead, to find a colt tied by a doorway. Let’s say this seems … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Discussion, Uncategorized Tagged With: lectio divina, Palm Sunday, reflection

After Reading the Magnificat: Luke 1:46-55

December 19, 2020 By Wide Spot Admin

by Anne Voegtlen   Here, within me, around me is a new life I did not seek.   Within me, around me, the old certainties have collapsed in the space of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Discussion, prayer, Religion / Faith

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