Tag: writing
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Unlocking the Alchemy of Generosity in Education
My heart is bursting. Just bursting. I wrote a letter to all the beautiful souls who made this gift possible: I am touched beyond words by all of your donations. I’m humbled that you would reach into your pockets to support our outstanding students. As you know, funding in public schools is tight and even…
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Opportunity in Change
Sometimes a huge and terrifying change can be an opportunity. My knee-jerk response to a change is to bristle, panic (even that invisible internal panic that nobody sees, but flutters across my chest like a rabid butterfly), and bemoan my fate. But so many times an unwelcome change has shown up at my threshold; it…
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Unmasking the Twin
My name means Twin. Thomas comes from Didymus, which means Twin. I’m not sure what that means in the grand scheme of things. I’m my own twin? I hold the potentiality of a twin? In the Christian tradition, Thomas was an apostle. Some Gnostic readings refer to him as Jesus’s twin. Canon maligns him as…
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Sunday, March 12, 2017
Sunday, March 12, 2017. Of course it was a Sunday. Sundays have always been hard for me. (I was going to type “hard”… then I thought “‘difficult’ would be better” and I started to type “difficult” and then I went back to “hard” because sometimes you really don’t need more syllables to make the same…