We hear a lot of talk these days about transformation. But what is it? How does it happen? What comes after transformation? Everyone loves a good transformation, especially the outer kind – the kind you can touch and feel. The big reveal of a transformed living room, a transformed look, a transformed body. And then [...]
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Right now, as you read this, American school officials are deciding which children to send home with food over the weekend, because there will be no food in their homes. In the richest country in the world, the United States of America, children are going hungry. This is criminal, revolting, reprehensible – I can’t think of [...]
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I’m a baby boomer – just as much a child of the 60’s and the tune in, turn on, drop out generation as the next guy. Just like all my baby boomer friends, I don’t want to get old. I tell myself every day that 60 is the new 50 (or even 40 when I’m [...]
(This post is dedicated to the people who held up and keep holding up the mirror. You know who you are.) I’ve been on Christine Kloser’s Transformational Author Retreat since Sunday evening, and it was been nothing short of life-changing. Really. There is something so incredibly special about spending time with people who see past [...]
Bring on the balloons! Strike up the band! Set off the fireworks! It’s a celebration! Star Polisher the business opens its doors today! Overweight women rejoice! Star Polisher is your community, your place. It’s all about and for you. It’s Your Place to Visit When – You want to stop letting a number on a scale tell [...]
Thanksgiving – the American holiday that glorifies food like no other day in the year. Yesterday I found myself in the grocery store before 8 a.m. so I could beat the crowds and buy the ingredients for the dish I’m contributing to our yearly worship at the High Altar of Food. And then last night [...]
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Dear Beloved Body, Please don’t drop dead from shock! I know you aren’t used to me addressing you that way. I’m finally realizing how beautifully you function and what a hard-working, wonderful vehicle you are for my soul. I haven’t made your job easier, have I? I haven’t stretched and moved you enough. I haven’t [...]
I still see them in my mind’s eye. A parade of Barundi women walking along the side of the dirt road, dressed in colorful fabrics artfully wrapped around them in a way no white woman seemed able to master. Their posture was remarkable – so erect from years of carrying wood, water, and food on [...]
Remembering, mourning, and praying for a safer, saner, more loving world.
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