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Shaking the Treat Bag
There is a very, very funny commercial for cat treats making the rounds this season. It begins with a laboratory-like room filled with all of the things cats can’t resist messing with at Christmas – the tree, the decorations, food, anything fragile, anything that moves. Cats a...
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What Lies Beneath
For the second month in a row, I find myself looking to the rectory for spiritual inspiration. The long-delayed repainting work began yesterday and continued today with much scraping and cleaning. Some of the bricks, which have been in their assigned places since about 1880, a...
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Deconstructing the Cross
Today is the day when the chimney comes down. As part of ongoing work on the outside of the rectory, brick masons are removing part of a chimney that has become dangerously unstable. It makes good practical sense. The chimney no longer serves its intended purpose. And rebuildi...
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Summer & What It Produced
As I write this in late August, it seems as if the summer has flown by. I had a long list of things I wanted to do, and much to my surprise, I actually did do many of them. And plenty of other things besides. So I am ending the summer with a nice stack of accomplishments and a...
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