Tag: summer

The most beautiful thing

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Early childhood Latter Day Saints storybook memory and how I learned that God was not a grumpy old man who spied on me from the sky.

This piece is featured in Elizabeth Hellstern’s interactive creation, the Telepoem Booth.

photo: Holly Troy 

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Born on a Thursday #29: Summer! Love!

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I found these succulents turning red along a crack in the sidewalk—change and beauty in an unlikely place.

Where do you find beauty in unlikely places?

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Born on a Thursday #28 – Fumbling Toward Grace

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This week has been emotionally stimulating and challenging. All the while I keep trying to remain open, no matter how scary that feels, and how awkward I feel in general. Signs of autumn’s impending arrival. The wheel goes round again. Though this happens every year, the shifting feels abrupt. I welcome the fall while embracing […]

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Born on a Thursday #27 – Finding Home

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God, I love my peeps here. Honestly, I’m not that tough. Or maybe, I’m just tired of being tough. I am surrounded by a lot of people who love me, and that’s my choice. It’s taken years to cultivate my relationships – and then some of my new relationships have fallen into place so easily I can hardly believe it! Though I do believe it, because I experience it.

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Number Nine

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Still, it’s Thursday, the day I was born, and I get the chance to step out of my everyday life and remember—I’m ALIVE!—while I dog/house sit for some dear friends in Scottsdale.

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