by Julie Mathison | Oct 24, 2023 | Home, Ideas, Lifestyle, Spirituality, Uncategorized
It’s autumn and the leaves are changing. Weeding in the garden, I see a bank of clouds roll over Mary’s Peak, darker than the pervading gray. I run inside to get my raincoat and then keep weeding, pulling clumps of grass out by mud-clad roots, thistles, old lettuces,...
by Julie Mathison | Jul 3, 2023 | Ideas, Lifestyle, Spirituality, Travel, Uncategorized
What do we search for, and why? This, I wondered, as I stood on the rooftop of the Cathedral of Santiago De Compostela, gazing down at the Puerta Santa, the Sacred Gate. I might have asked the two women with whom I was chatting; Swedish, but schooled in perfect...
by Julie Mathison | Dec 20, 2020 | Lifestyle, Uncategorized
I am four years old. This is deep memory, the membrane stretched, gossamer-thin, over a reality I no longer inhabit. A young child’s world, full of wonder, danger, and mystery. Impressions linger: flour dusted over the countertops (did I sneak into the kitchen at...
by Julie Mathison | Oct 28, 2020 | Ideas, Lifestyle, Society, Spirituality, Uncategorized
Boredom. The scourge of childhood. At least, it used to be. I remember long drives in the backseat of the car, all the way across the country with only the horizon for company. Telephone wires that looped up and down, up and down. Static on the radio. Windows rolled...
by Julie Mathison | Oct 16, 2020 | Ideas, Lifestyle, Society, Spirituality, Uncategorized
Jon Linton sees people. That’s what he does for a living and for a life, seeing people who haven’t experienced being seen in days, months, even years. And in seeing them, he redeems them – and himself. The I Have A Name Project was born on the streets of...
by Julie Mathison | Sep 10, 2020 | Ideas, Lifestyle, Society, Spirituality, Uncategorized
I wake up at 2:34 a.m., and my chest feels tight. Glowing numbers from the display clock splay across the ceiling, and I turn over, determined to sleep, but there’s a smell in the air. It’s that campfire smell, nice and woodsy, only it’s in my bedroom, and...
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