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31
Oct

Some Days It’s All About Jesus

Well not Jesus exactly — but his representative. After years of working in the public sector as a financial analyst, non profit type, I now realize that despite the hype nonprofits are no more family friendly than your average corporation. In many cases, they are less likely to pay well, offer health insurance, or sufficient personal time off to deal with the daily goings-on of child-rearing.My current boss regularly argues that homeless people are all bums, Democrats are socialists and people who are poor just don’t work as hard as he does. Yet he is the best boss I’ve ever had…

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Day #22

18
Aug

Softly into Wordlessness

As a very late adopter of Google Reader (the one that lets you have your favorite blogs stream), I’m continually stunned into silence by the beauty of the things I read. As my list of must-reads grows each week, the problem is compounded now.

I become at these moments, a dedicated word worshipper but also oddly wordless… my fingers frozen over the keyboard pausing to absorb what I’ve read, stories I want to share…

About loneliness

About teaching children to fly

About longing to hear good news about raising kids

About heartbreak

And I simply cannot write anything better. So I sit and read instead. And wait for my own words to come again…



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