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...
by Julie Mathison | Aug 30, 2020 | Lifestyle, Travel, Uncategorized
My earliest memories of camping are snapshots of travel, radio tower lights winking, red in the darkness, whispering to my dozy mind of strange and magical horizons. These were our itinerant years, and camping was cheap. Long stretches of Nebraska highway,...
by Julie Mathison | Aug 2, 2020 | Lifestyle, Music, Spirituality, Uncategorized
On the most important day of my life, the Sugar Beets were there. We had made all the arrangements. Round tables, each laid with table cloths and a small vase of flowers, were scattered amongst the trees of our centuries-old oak grove. Plates in...
by Julie Mathison | Jul 27, 2020 | Home, Lifestyle, Society, Spirituality
Every spring, for the last fifteen years, we have planted a garden. In recent years, much of this has fallen to our friends, Greg and Amber, who share in the spoils of chard, kale, carrots, beets, garlic, lettuce and berries of all kinds. But we all do our...
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