Immortal Until

Ever thought of yourself as immortal?
New thought–or a new way of putting an old thought–came to my attention in today’s family devotional reading from God’s Prayer Book: The Power and Pleasure of Praying the Psalms by Ben Patterson.   Psalm 57:2 finds David declaring,
“I cry out to God Most High, to God who will fulfill [...]

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Sunrise and the Golden Arches

Monday morning I drove home from taking Zach to school. My drive is eastward, and I was treated to an especially breathtaking sunrise. However, a block into my morning treat, the local and large Golden Arches imposed themselves on the vision. It occurred to me that I shouldn’t let that spoil the [...]

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Sunshine for a Rainy Day

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Kind People Doing Their Jobs

My new place of employment has a great system for a number of services.  There are two options for submitting items (such as class syllabi) for printing–one digital, one hard copy via intracampus courier.  Since I couldn’t get the technology to work for digital submission (password issues, I guess, which I will get sorted out [...]

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Life Lessons After the Wedding

Don’t you love weddings?  Today’s nuptial event united two dear friends who have found love and each other in the “September” of their lives  The celebration was a beautiful expression of some of the greatest of life’s treasures–family, friends, music, and love–especially God’s love.
Post-wedding, when pondering life’s good things was the mode, I opened my [...]

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Tingling in the Green Zone

It’s happening again.  I recognize that old, familiar rush.  It’s what happens when I’m where I’m supposed to be doing what I’m supposed to be doing.
I’ve got a new job.  I’ll be teaching two courses (three classes) of reading strategies at the local community college.  These classes are designed to review read-to-learn skills and help [...]

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Marginalizing

I threw that word out at a meeting I attended this evening.  Its use was rooted in my at-the-moment frustration about something of significance that seemed to be getting shoved to an edge.  (As it turned out, a wiser head than mine offered a creative suggestion that will likely result in restoring the thing to [...]

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Somewhere Else: An Announcement

I decided to start a new blog.  Why not?
Actually, why?
Maybe this is segmenting my life too much, but here’s the explanation:  My original xanga blog, “Ma’s Musings”, has ended up being my “for fun” place, for the most part.  (I started that blog when my email username was “mavan”, for Michael and Amy VanHuisen.  I [...]

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I Choose Colors…or Not

“If you had to choose between colors and diameters, which would you choose?”  My friend Jon posed this question in response to my last post, written with the purpose of soliciting some ideas and thoughts to stir the brain a bit.
Jon’s question–definitely apples and oranges…at first blush.
“Of course, I’d choose colors,” was my first thought.  [...]

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Brain Stir

If you check in here very often, you know I haven’t been posting very regularly. You also know that we’re in the job-hunt mode in our family. I think that has diverted some of my creative and observational juices to a different kind of focus.
So…stir my brain.
If YOUR creative juices are flowing or [...]

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