Tag: Health and Healing

Perfectly Imperfect

The name of my blog used to be “Perfectly Imperfect,” by which I was trying to say that it’s okay to be imperfect. More than that, I was trying to remind myself that it’s okay that I am not perfect, but it didn’t work! The name just made me feel like I had to be …

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Disarming the Clobber Passages, #1

Last week we started a movie discussion group at Wicker Park Grace, based on the movie Fish Out Of Water. It tells the filmmaker’s story, who came out as a lesbian when she was in college and was rejected by all her Christian friends who told her she was going to go to hell. To …

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Tabouli Recipe

This tabouli recipe has been enjoyed a couple of times at the community dinner at Wicker Park Grace, including tonight. So I said I would post the recipe. I think what makes it wonderful is mixing all the liquids into the boiling water and pouring it onto the bulgar (cracked wheat) all at once. This …

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Self-portrait :: Story Cycle :: Worth Remembering

Well, I am down for the count with this cold/flu everyone has. So instead of watching TV from bed, I worked on an art project that the Wicker Park Grace Art Forum peeps have been encouraging me to do. I’ve shared at the Forum some work I’ve done with collage and digital manipulation of photos, …

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Mid-night Tweets (Micro-blogging)

It’s the middle of the night.Woke up thinking of all the ways I am imperfect. But this is the nature of being human, right? Have to forgive. about 15 hours ago from Twitterrific This is why we need each other to love each other.To say that we are *good enough* to be loved.Every mistake feels …

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