Watched a handful of boys play a video game the other day. The lure of a kingdom grandiose and full of possibility held them spellbound, imaginations wide-awake, passionate longing spilling into the room. We are all fueled by imagination, as pointed out in Albert Mohler’s interview with Andrew Peterson. And what is there like fantasy to awaken yearning for another…
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Refracted Light
Welcome to Lavender & Rose Concessions
Turns out you couldn’t stop six-year-old Lydia, all on fire to “sell something,” from dragging a table and chair out to the street. Fresh out of lemons. So we picked bouquets, and I hid on the front porch to watch like a hawk. Half an hour later, the girl’s table was empty, and she’d made the day for folks driving…
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On Being Still and Stilling Essential Oil
Copper stills shine with undeniable beauty. As well, copper for stilling essential oil serves to naturally neutralize the pure scent of the oil terpenes, while glass stills require the oil be left open for a week or so (due to a sulphuric character in the glass-stilled oil). Weighing the benefits of copper over glass, I think copper wins (sure, it’s…
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Don’t Touch Schizophrenia?
When you hear about schizophrenia, what’s your response? Hand the topic over to experts? Run like the house is on fire? Schizophrenic behavior can be daunting — the muddled communication, the inordinate lack of motivation and activity, the apparently nonexistent affect and emotions. The lack of social functionality makes relationship difficult, and the cognitive difficulty tends to unnerve. Faced with…
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Borders
Happy 4th, I hear, standing in the grocery store line with my hotdogs and ice-cream, ready for a fire-worked-up day, thinking, this July 4th, I have told a border story — Reseda. I hold several in my heart. So do you. Only Native Americans, with trails of tears and buried hearts and wounded knees, can claim no border history. The…
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