there is only that instant... when it returns... and I know such warmth again... when understanding dawns.
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FRESH OFF THE PAGE: To catch the light
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THROUGH MY LENS: monarch memories
All it took was one small, beautiful moment to remind me.
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Here, at Summer’s End
Instead of getting weary... I'm waking up. Coming out of that strange sort of summer sleepwalk, emerging like a hibernating bear of southern latitudes.
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A Natural Salvation: Finding My Own Sort of Faith
I don't claim to have ever fully committed to one faith or another. I was always more curious, I think, than interested in finding out who was "right" or in being saved.
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FRESH OFF THE PAGE: bits of stars
This is a poem I wrote several years ago, inspired by watching a show on the Discovery Channel about how the universe was created. Even though I had learned all the science in school when …
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THROUGH MY LENS: wait and see
Honeybees dance along a pair of delicate lace curtains hanging in my bathroom window. They are kind of an old-fashioned thing, lace curtains, but I love how the light moves through them on a sunny day, casting shadows …
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FRESH OFF THE PAGE: morning, maybe
All the world feels like it’s hesitating to me sometimes. It is difficult to commit to any big decision, I think, some of them harder than others. So it feels better to stay in that gray …
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From the Back Porch: First snow
This morning I woke up to find what I first thought was a really hard frost when I looked out the window. But no, it was snow. Real, white, fluffy snow, and it was still falling. …
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THROUGH MY LENS: hanging at the edge of the world
I returned home from my visit to Hilton Head Island, SC, with more pictures of the ocean than I know what to do with. Sunrises, sunsets, and shorebirds aplenty have followed me back to the …
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FRESH OFF THE PAGE: lost at sea
Every night when I go to bed I turn on my ocean sounds, listening to the surf as I fall asleep. For several years I used a bedside alarm clock that played different nature sounds; now, of course, …
Jacqlyn Thorne 