Category: Reflections
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So Others Look Good
Sometimes the thing we least want to do is the thing we most need to do. A frozen Boston morning, a marathon trainer’s hard truth, and what it takes to go out the door anyway.
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Praying the Rotary
Italy keeps teaching me to slow down, stay at the table, and trust that somehow the road will open.
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I Missed You From Before
My youngest was three when he told me he missed me from before, meaning the years I spent at sea. Eight years later, the Blue Grotto, swim practice, and fifty minutes of Avengers lore are helping give some of that time back.
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Where Did Everybody Go?
Every August, Italy hangs a sign in the window and stops. On Ferragosto, fallow fields, screen sabbath, and a cypress forest full of families doing nothing in a highly organized fashion.
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Many Happy Returns
A birthday is an anniversary, and an anniversary marks the staying. Reflections on marriage, calling, and country from a fault line in Sicily.
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Walk On The Wild Side
A burial plot in old New England forest, a long-overdue morning at Walden Pond, and the wilderness I did not realize I had been missing until I was surrounded by it again.
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Shake Awake
A 4.4 earthquake, eight weeks of summer break, and the daily work of standing ground when the earth refuses to stay still.
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Not On My Bingo Card
A family trip to Amsterdam, four homemade bingo cards, and grace found outside the itinerary.
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Kin In Spirit
A papal visit in Naples, a phone-free teenager, a crowd full of joy, and a bus stop blessing I did not see coming.
