Tag: Transformation
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AJ’s Master Class #2
Hello loves, I just got another beautiful “AJ’s impact on my life” letter and it connected to the second thing I would have talked about at the funeral if I’d taken more time. As I mulled the letter over, I half-remembered a poem that referenced that topic. That same night, as I went through my…
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eulogy for a baby
My baby nephew AJ died two weeks ago. His parents, my brother and his wife, asked me to give the eulogy at the funeral. One would think that distilling a life that only lasted gestation + 5 weeks could perhaps be a tricky thing, but in fact it was easy. After sifting through hundreds of…
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Alabanza
I spent several days as a guest of the family that rescued me from perishing by dehydration on the Camino, one hot day in September. Their granddaughter found me resting in the shade of a castle ruin above the village of Montpeyroux on the Chemin d’Arles. It was National Patrimony Day and all the closed…
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Jimmy Stewart Goes To Spain
There’s this part of me that loves the movie “It’s a Wonderful Life” because, in sad and lost moments, I wonder how much my own life actually matters. I imagine that if I were to disappear, it would be like pulling a fist from a pail of water. I need a reminder, from time to…
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On Turning 38
One week before my 38th birthday, I came home from my 38th international trip. I wanted it to mean something important. Two days before, I’d been sitting after a breakfast of mie goreng – Balinese fried rice, watching fitful, dirty morning waves on the Indian Ocean under a thick and heavy sky, annoyed that my…
Behind the Blue Door 