Faith and the Soul’s Doing In this season of rebirth and snow, I want to single out one person who represents to me all of the Combination: Faith. Guts to actually live. Communication within. Love of life, and rain, and ocean waves. Amy Purdy’s story is not about breaking borders. It’s about pushing off of
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TIME AND PLACE Actual time is not of prime importance. Sometime in the last fifty or sixty years, or so. In barren lands lying south of the Mexican-American border. Center stage is the dry, dusty, biscuit-brown central plaza of a small town in the mountainous area of Mexico. A monument or two. Trees. Perhaps a
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TIME AND PLACE 1961. A thick, tropical forest along the River Ogooué stands guard over Dr. Albert Schweitzer’s hospital in Lambaréné, Gabon, West Africa. His bungalow (center stage), like the nearby wooden barracks, is old, with chicken-wire windows. Untidy. Dusty. Cozy. Safe and relaxing. All about are the sounds of animals – chickens, goats, dogs,
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I’ve held everything a gentle man could pray for.The beautiful of beautiful children.The words I’ve won and lost. And then came you.You are the sunrise of my coffee.You are the thoughts of my twilight time.You are the tears of joy that run down my nose. You are the Reward for what good I have done,and
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