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It is 5:48 a.m. Good morning. I am fortunate enough to teach a 300-level writing course at our local university. The students who take this course are always dynamic, thoughtful, and seemingly ready for something to happen. This semester is no different. I teach on Wednesday evenings, so our class this week fell on Day…
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Good morning. It is 6:30 a.m. I overslept this morning by a good hour, and I am grateful for it. Often, I think that the body continues to send us messages; all we need to do is get out of the way, shut down that inner critic, and let the body take over. It always…
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Day 1. It’s 9:47 p.m., and I am just getting the chance to jump on line and throw down my day-1 post. Like I promised, I’m going to be candid in these entries about this journey. When I woke up at 4:57 a.m., and I turned off my alarm, my first thought was, What stupidity…
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It’s 8:23 p.m., and I’ve just returned from taking some friends to their parents’ home in Lutherville. Their power has been out since 5 this morning, and the temperature was hovering around 50 degrees before I picked them up. BGE has no idea when their power will return. They couldn’t take the chance–not with two…
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10:13 a.m. Good morning. This is the view of our front yard/street at 8:30 a.m. (This would be a great I-Spy picture: can you find a car by a tree?). We’ve already measured 24+ inches of heavy, heavy snow, and it’s not supposed to end for another 8 hours. The sustained winds are blowing at…
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Owen, a student who attends the high school where I teach, shared this video on his Facebook group Small Acts of Kindness (SAK), which he started to give people a chance to share the little things that make the lives of others a bit better. He certainly did just that in sharing this video with…
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(all photos taken with my Blackberry Curve this morning) One of the things I’ve always enjoyed doing is confronting nature’s elements head-on. It’s one of the quickest ways to feel as alive as I possibly can. Thoreau put it this way in “Where I Lived, and What I Lived For” in Walden: I went to…
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MERRY CHRISTMAS! Peace on Earth, can it be Years from now, perhaps we’ll see See the day of glory See the day, when men of good will Live in peace, live in peace again For me, it was never a question that this song was going to place first in the countdown. For many years,…
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Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht, Alles schläft; einsam wacht Nur das traute hochheilige Paar. Holder Knabe im lockigen Haar, Schlaf in himmlischer Ruh! Schlaf in himmlischer Ruh! In any language, Silent Night is probably the most recognized Christmas song ever performed. And in nearly every case, it is recognized for its melodic solemnity in the holiness…
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Sometimes, a song moves you so much that words seem to get in the way of its powerful meaning. O Holy Night, which has been sung beautifully by countless artists and choirs, is one of those songs. In fact, when I first created the Christmas Countdown during Thanksgiving weekend, I had it listed as my…
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