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This is the very pumpkin pie
my grandmother made—almost. Read more →
The Church of the Larger Fellowship Nominating Committee seeks CLF members to run for positions on the Board of Directors beginning June 2014. Read more →
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There are many relics in our home—objects to which important memories are attached. You probably have some, too.Each recalls some journey, event, or person that is a part of your life’s experience.
They’re precious on that account—religious objects that summon up powerful recollections. One of my favorites is my tie tack. It’s an opal, full of fiery iridescence.
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Lately, as my Labrador retriever has been reaching the final days of a long, happy life, I have felt moved to sit with her and share, sometimes aloud and sometimes in my mind, memories of our 14 years together. Read more →
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What’s your favorite Thanksgiving memory? I think about being a kid, and watching the Thanksgiving Day parade while the house filled with delicious smells, followed by making “turkeys” that had an apple for a body, and tail feathers constructed of raisins threaded onto toothpicks.
More recently, I remember the Thanksgiving that the whole family gathered at my brother’s house, how we all crowded into his kitchen to make four kinds of pie and five kinds of cranberry sauce as well as the turkey and sundry other fixings.
November 2013
The true art of memory is the art of attention. —Samuel Johnson
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The whole time between Thanksgiving and Kwanzaa is filled with days of remembrance.
In the weeks around the winter solstice those of us in the Northern Hemisphere remind ourselves that we live in a universe where light will push aside the dark, where seedlings will sprout after their long cold sleep, where hope springs into the world unexpectedly, unlooked-for. It is a season of gathering for many, and a season of memories.
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