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I absolved my friend yesterday of making rude gestures at another driver.

There is an incredible amount of life unfolding in our community right now:  warm, joyful news of birthdays and budding romance and cancer in remission, of graduations and project completion and pregnancy…  and heavy,  heart-breaking news of isolation and terminal cancer and divorce, of the sundry human failures…  not to mention the normal, day-to-day exhaustion and heroics of existence together…  Life is full.
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I danced in the chapel last night.

I danced in the chapel last night. After corporate worship, after wine
and chocolate and stories, I returned alone to the stillness of the gently
lit Gothic arches, the worn oddity of the choir chairs, the clean cushion
of Catholic carpet, and I danced, my body stretching and leaping, spinning
and striving, giving voice to the hope and joy and frustration and sorrow
and love that fill my heart.
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