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 28, 2020 | Ideas, Society, Spirituality
An election that could break America. A global pandemic. Fires, hurricanes, and the ticking time bomb of catastrophic, exponential climate effects. Protests, riots, polarized politics, poisonous discourse. Take your pick. If you’re anything like me and find...
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 | Sep 7, 2020 | Literature, Spirituality
Tax week. Trouble has come home to roost. Days pass as I sit at the dining room table, scribbling notes and deciphering notes previously scribbled and moving piles of paper from one place to another. Consequently, here I am with very little time to compose my...
by Julie Mathison | Aug 17, 2020 | Children's literature, Literature, Spirituality, Uncategorized
Margaret J. Anderson was born in 1931 in Gorebridge, a small coal-mining town a few miles south of Edingurgh, Scotland. At 88, she is a beacon of inspiration for we who find ourselves looking down the barrel of our second half-century. Independent,...
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...
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