Category: family
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When Ya Gotta Glow….
For me, lightning bugs provide an instant mode of time travel back to the very best days of my childhood, when I believed in everything and never doubted that the best things in life were free.
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Musical Echoes for Father’s Day
My favorite radio station, WQXR, spent much of today playing listeners’ requests for music that was in some way connected with their fathers. It was rather a sweet idea, even if it yielded a lot of very well-worn chestnuts such as Bolero and the New World Symphony. It seemed a…
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Lamentations
Though it may make me weep buckets to listen to a soaring voice singing of endings, partings and separation, it’s always a good kind of weeping, the kind of tears that refresh and restore and wash away the earthly fog of selfish regrets to reveal the heavenly truth of redemption…
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Dear Darling Daddy
Dad is gone now, but I still celebrate Father’s Day by remembering all the ways in which he made life worth living. If there are any fathers out there who are new at the game, or running out of ideas, here’s a sampling from Dad’s playbook of how to raise…
Louise T. Guinther 