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Weathering the Storms within Our Communities
This time of year is when those of us who live on the coast start bracing ourselves for the approaching peak of hurricane season. June 1 is the official start of hurricane season, but the storms started early this year with Tropical Storm Arthur in mid-May. As the...
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The Ghosts Among Us
There was a long period of my life where I felt like I floated among the living like a ghost. Invisible. Irrelevant. Hiding in plain sight. As long as I was silent and made no waves, I was allowed to float around unperturbed. When I spoke, or tried to make a wave, I...
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Devastation = Bad | A Conversation With My Ego
Pandemic, demonstrations, and recession. Sounds like one hot mess. Or is it? Well… what about this confluence of events is NOT disruptive, devastating, and uncomfortable? All that is bad, right? Not necessarily. Disruption, devastation, and discomfort can actually...
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The Silent Bark
A co-worker and I were driving home from work late tonight late because we were out at Okefenokee Swamp Park conducting alligator research. We were having a conversation about how amazing it is that through [insert explanatory force of your preference here…God, fate,...
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Up-Ending One-Upsmanship
Up-ending One-Upsmanship Do the dynamics around our national dialogue about race remind you of a dysfunctional married couple? Both sides are feeling unheard, hurt, and unloved, and it feels like each side is speaking a different language. The rhetoric heats up...
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Back to the Trees
Photo by Johannes Plenio on Unsplash Now, it is time to head back to the trees. We literally are going to talk about trees in this blog, but I mean this figuratively as well about a sense of mental escape. Thinking about “heading back to the trees” gives me a sense of...
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Love is an Active Verb
I used to think love was just a feeling, that warmth of affection or romance that we feel in our hearts. Before I married decades ago, I had also heard that marriage was a lot of work, like changing diapers and doing chores. But I know from hard-earned experience...
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From Grief to Healing
Just when you thought it couldn’t get worse, it feels like the bottom has fallen out from beneath us. Again. And again. And again. When will it end? The last several months have been a seemingly unremitting series of surprises, loss and grief, and what feels like...
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