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  • Matt Cutts said, Try something new for 30 days. Worth an effort, anyone want to join me in this challenge? #TED http://t.co/GCo4iHRw
  • So good to be back home, but loved seeing my Episcopal postulant seminary wife in Virginia this weekend. So proud.
  • "What to say at death's door," by Hospice Chaplain Kerry Egan, well worth reading, http://t.co/0pzai0I2 @DavidFleenor thanks

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    • kathy: I am ready to live free of the devastating effects my mother’s mental/emotional illness has had on me...
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    • Wes Ellis: I read your column with great interest. I, too, am a “convert” to the Episcopal Church, the...
    • Margaret Hinson: Yea! Malcolm, Would you believe that Jimmy and I had often wondered if you would consider serving as...
    • Jerry Jacob: Malcolm, This is something else we have in common. I, too, came from mostly a Baptist background. Maundy...
    • Sherri Shepherd: Interesting to me how so many children of Baptist preachers defect. Some have said that the pressure...
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    • teodora contreras: as soon I wake up early morning, I talk to the Lord, Speak Lord Your Servant is Listening. Then I...
    • Jeff: Nice mantra.

Shifting Gears

We gently shift into a new gear.

We leave the hospital tomorrow with hospice care at home.

Tonight, we live into the questions.  And there are many.

One of her nurses from last week stops by to check on her even though my she isn’t her nurse tonight.

It is time to love in new

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Steps on the Simplicity Journey

I was a little hard on myself in my last post, Why Do I Want to Simplify? Do you ever do that?

I am usually hardest on myself when I want to be at a certain goal but I’m not willing to do what is necessary to get there.  I just want to be there

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Why do I want to simplify?

This is a hard blog to write.  I am embarrassed.

I’ve been exploring how to simplify my life more lately and I read several blogs (see bottom of left column) daily about how to do so.  If I read enough about simplification, write enough about it, then my life will be simpler.  Right?

Wrong.  As

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Dreaming Anew

Friends have asked about the process of us putting our home on the market and moving into Birmingham.

So why are we open to selling our home on the lake that we love so much?

Not long after I built my house in 2002, I was at peace with the idea that I would be

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