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Bread and Honey: More Unlimited
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Friday, February 15, 2013. I just found this post in my draft folder. Not sure why I didn't post it when I wrote it in 2009, about a month after our trip to Ethiopia to pick up the kids. Makes me want to go back to Addis. My friend, Liz, writes a great blog about her quest for fitness. She loves the theater. She has taken her frustration about her body and made her quest for healthy self-love and self-care into a performance. I love her writing. This entry. Is about living within our means. So much of wh...
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Bread and Honey: The Secret of the Five-day Vacation
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Sunday, February 3, 2013. The Secret of the Five-day Vacation. I have discovered a low-investment/high-yield activity that could change your life. But, you could use it a little bit at a time and get a lot more bang for you buck. You can do that THREE or FOUR times a year with your precious vacation time. Get a real break from work, get some real play time with your family, and actually reduce your stress rather than increase it. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Welcome to my kitchen table. October 20...
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Bread and Honey: September 2011
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Friday, September 30, 2011. This letter is an expression of my grief. This letter is written with love and hope. For parents who are having a hard time. Loving (and/or liking) the child(ren) in their family. Dear Parents who are struggling with children who don't behave as you expected,. Please do not use food as reward or punishment. Please do not lock your child in isolation. Please do not withhold attention for long periods. Please do not hit your child. That do not harm children. Find someone to help...
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Bread and Honey: What We Deserve
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Tuesday, April 23, 2013. I was cleaning out my inbox and came across an email called "what McVeigh deserved" which contained a copy of the letter to the editor of the local paper I wrote a few days after Timothy McVeigh. Was executed for setting off the bomb in Oklahoma City in 1995. It was June 2001, and I was responding to the onslaught of letters and comments rejoicing in the death of McVeigh as "justice" or "what he deserved.". Killing is not part of healing, it is part of giving up hope. Fighting fi...
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Bread and Honey: Fifty-two Ways to Relieve Stress
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Tuesday, May 7, 2013. Fifty-two Ways to Relieve Stress. That do not involve food. Ways to meet stress and keep on walking. 3 Sing a song from your childhood as loud as you can, or as silly as you can. Sing Row Your Boat with a mad voice. 5 Do nothing for ten minutes. 6 Slow down the pace. For fast-acting relief try slowing down.”. 8211; Lily Tomlin. 7 Reduce the number of clocks in your life. 9 Invite or make a plan for safe, intimate connection with a loved one (which may or may not involve sex). 19 Add...
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Bread and Honey: December 2012
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Sunday, December 16, 2012. Prayer for a community at a loss for words. Oh Unknowable Author of Mystery,. We cry out to you. In shock and sadness. We do not understand. What appears to be. The absence of your Love. In the murder of twenty innocent children. And the loving adults who cared for them. Or the trauma their classmates, colleagues, and families. We are heartbroken for all of them. We don’t know what to do! Some of us feel like powerless children. Eyes wide, hands in the air. As the Human Family.
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Bread and Honey: Dance, Rise
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Thursday, February 14, 2013. This morning, in my bed, I felt completely safe and loved. I thought: this is the ultimate privilege, to be safe and adored and deeply connected to someone who loves me, someone I love. Last night, inspired by a friend's invitation to today's One Billion Rising event in my town. I watched some of the videos, and listened to the anthem, Break the Chain. What Good Will It Do? Most of that is not happening for me anymore. I have risen. I rose out of oppression with the h...Well,...
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Bread and Honey: March 2012
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Friday, March 30, 2012. I parent teens. What's your superpower? Came across this question. Privileges for Teens from Hard Places. How do you find the balance of allowing older children and teens from “hard places” to have freedoms/privileges when they haven’t shown the same level of respect that you would expect from your other children? My response was too long for the comment box. LOL. So here it is. We struggle with this a lot. We find that when they have something to work for in their minds, they are...
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Bread and Honey: May 2013
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Tuesday, May 7, 2013. Fifty-two Ways to Relieve Stress. That do not involve food. Ways to meet stress and keep on walking. 3 Sing a song from your childhood as loud as you can, or as silly as you can. Sing Row Your Boat with a mad voice. 5 Do nothing for ten minutes. 6 Slow down the pace. For fast-acting relief try slowing down.”. 8211; Lily Tomlin. 7 Reduce the number of clocks in your life. 9 Invite or make a plan for safe, intimate connection with a loved one (which may or may not involve sex). 19 Add...
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Bread and Honey: November 2012
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Saturday, November 10, 2012. Letting God Out of the Box. If I were a preacher, this is the sermon I would give tomorrow. How did you learn about homosexuality? Where did you get your ideas about it? What is your first memory of knowing someone who identified as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer? I believe this: there is no sin bigger than the sin of thinking I get to decide who is going to hell based on my limited little brain inside my one tiny little head. Jesus said, "If you are bothered b...
