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November 2019

November 02, 2019
  Once upon a time, I would have insisted I did not like the color...

October 2019

October 19, 2019
  How's that for a title? It's October at Maplehurst. Most of the leaves are...
October 12, 2019
  Is God in the clouds? Somewhere up above the clouds? Most of us live...

September 2019

September 21, 2019
  In the churches of my growing up, I heard admired men from shiny pulpits...
September 07, 2019
  When I write about cultivating glory, of course I imagine myself in the role...

August 2019

August 31, 2019
  I am writing this from the front porch at Maplehurst. I am writing this...
August 27, 2019
  Our planet is always turning, always rotating around its center. But there are moments...
August 03, 2019
  I should call them the hydrangeas of astonishment. This summer hardly anyone visits us...

July 2019

July 20, 2019
It's a wonderful thing to step into a place someone else has prepared for you....
July 06, 2019
  I do not love July, but I appreciate its drama. We wake to fog...

June 2019

June 29, 2019
  Around here, summer began with a long-anticipated trip followed by a week of jet-lag....
June 08, 2019
  I live in the ordinary dull-gray world of sibling squabbles, broken air-conditioners, flower-eating garden...
June 01, 2019
  It is the first day of June, and I can feel spring rolling into...

May 2019

May 28, 2019
  Toward the end of our Memorial Day gathering, I walked with a few friends...
May 21, 2019
  It only lasted a moment but what a moment. And how near I came...
May 14, 2019
  Spring is my personal harvest season. The plans I made last summer, the bulbs...
May 07, 2019
  May is my favorite month in the garden. The late daffodils and tulips are...

April 2019

April 30, 2019
  There are some miracles so regular we can almost forget they are miracles. The...
April 27, 2019
  It felt like winter would last forever, while it lasted. Spring was a mirage...
April 13, 2019
  We are living it. I feel that more than ever in early spring. Sometimes...
April 09, 2019
  There is nothing, nothing, nothing, until, suddenly, there is everything: a haze of green...
April 02, 2019
  The opening of T. S. Eliot's "The Waste Land" is often quoted this time...

March 2019

March 30, 2019
  I write these Saturday morning posts ... on Saturday morning. Coffee cup nearby. Cartoon...
March 26, 2019
  We do not always get to choose whether we step into the wilderness or...
March 19, 2019
  For too many years in a row, I've tried to observe Lent my own...
March 16, 2019
  I began this "Cultivating Glory" column assuming I would lay out for you (and...
March 12, 2019
  That's the claim I make in this book: like the God to whom we...
March 09, 2019
  The literal meaning of Lent is "springtime," a fact I was reminded of this...
March 05, 2019
  Six years ago, we moved into a red brick farmhouse built in 1880 by...
March 02, 2019
  This winter seems to be following the pattern of the previous two: in December...
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