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While a Baby Slept: (“I Love You, Lord”)

by Laurie Klein 8 Chiming In

While a Baby Slept
First grandson

Dear readers, I thought you might enjoy reading the story behind “I Love You, Lord,” a guest post I recently wrote for Makes You Mom.

I Love You, Lord, but: Live in a dorm for three months? At age fifty? What a way to celebrate the Five-O milestone.

No nails or screws. No thumbtacks or tape, even—dorm rules nixed hanging any personal decor. At least the barracks sported fresh paint. Thin walls leaked every sound, each word spoken.

Ancient plumbing simulated banshees with microphones. A dawn shower risked waking the dead. A flush goosed pipes to operatic range. I never saw a drinking glass shatter at a high note but braced for the possibility.

Thin walls leaked every sound, each word spoken. (click to continue reading)

 

Filed Under: Immersions Tagged With: "I Love You, being needed, gratefulness, Lord", new mom March 15, 2016

Biblio Diva Suggests . . .

by Laurie Klein 12 Chiming In

Welcome the Biblio Diva, who likes to round out her thought life: take her brain for a spin, intersect with the ideas of others, then offer an occasional view on books she’s reading.

The Biblio Diva has a question for you: What if a photo essay could also be a mini-book report?

Biblio Diva looks at an armillary sphere

I live my life in widening circles . . .

 

The Biblio Diva loves to read

The quote beneath the armillary sphere comes from Rilke’s Book of Hours. She keeps that book beside her computer. Reads it often.

At present, she’s immersed in a book about gratefulness, by David Steindl-Rast.

His early chapters describe the simple, wholehearted gratefulness that brims within people spontaneously as a form of prayer, often wordless.

One way to increase this welling gratitude, he writes, is through attentiveness. But be warned: [Read more…]

Filed Under: BiblioDiva Tagged With: attentiveness, Biblio Diva, childlike, gratefulness, wonderment January 28, 2016

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