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why hello, pilgrimage!: February 2008
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Why hello, pilgrimage! Friday, February 29, 2008. This is a little something I wrote yesterday for this month's FIFUL Faith and Justice Forum; the topic was transportation and justice. Here are my two cents, whatever that adds up to. : ). Some of my favorite people, the Amish, say they ride buggies because it slows them down. The bus is my buggy, reminding me to slow down and think about the choices I make in life. Am I choosing to live a life marked by convenience and comfort and self-sufficienc...That ...
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why hello, pilgrimage!: March 2008
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Why hello, pilgrimage! Friday, March 21, 2008. This is my new favorite thing. My world smelled delicious for hours afterward. And who says I can't enjoy a pipe because I am a woman? Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Fresno, CA, United States. I am a young girl whose world just keeps getting bigger and smaller at the same time. you know? View my complete profile. This is my new favorite thing. This is how it works. You're young until you're not. You love until you don't. You try until you can't.
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why hello, pilgrimage!: April 2008
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Why hello, pilgrimage! Friday, April 25, 2008. Does this make anyone else cry? I can't tell if it's the mournful guitar intro, or Merry Clayton's powerful pleading voice, or simply the word. All this destruction is just a shot away, if we don't pay attention to it and keep it from happening. It always makes me cry, but I never really listened to the lyrics until tonight. And somehow they drove it home. Mick Jagger in a Rolling Stone interview:. Oh, a storm is threat'ning. My very life today. It's just a ...
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why hello, pilgrimage!: August 2008
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Why hello, pilgrimage! Wednesday, August 27, 2008. The more you see. The less you know. The less you find out as you go. I knew much more then, than i do now. I sat in a class today, one that i sat in precisely two years ago. Theology, culture, and u2. One of the first classes that allowed me to realize the beautiful complexity and connectedness and enigma and challenge of the world around us. and gently asked me to take ownership and embrace of my small piece of the world that i have been given. Layover...
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why hello, pilgrimage!: June 2008
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Why hello, pilgrimage! Tuesday, June 17, 2008. I had a good day. Did you? Today I met a man named Singh while we were waiting at the doctor's office, for an appointment I had no desire to follow through with. Today I had the chance to dance around with some great authors and play my harmonica to old time revival music, complete with washboard. We heard Mark Scandrette give an incredible spoken word exhortation to reimagine. everything. Really, who wouldn't want to meet these guys? Sunday, June 8, 2008.
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why hello, pilgrimage!: July 2008
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Why hello, pilgrimage! Wednesday, July 9, 2008. Jesus for president. the book, the tour, the wonder of it all. Shane claiborne, chris haw, some psalters, and friends roll into town to shake things up. you should definitely be there. Stanislaus and l street. Provoking the political imagination. Taking politics beyond what we think they are capable of. Making our own clothes. Rethinking the way we understand justice. Learning how to create peace creatively. Eating locally and organically. You're young unti...
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why hello, pilgrimage!: India's pretty self-explanatory.
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Why hello, pilgrimage! Thursday, February 19, 2009. My new grandmotherly spritely friend Jay and I saw a Bolloywood film together in Bangalore the other day. Fun. : ). Although we couldn't understand absolutely any of the Hindi spoken and sung, the visuals were India just as I am experiencing it outside the doors of classy Rex Cinema. In this vision I answer him/her simplistically and holistically as I point to the screen and shrug nonchalantly- "India's pretty self-explanatory.". Q is my favorite. Fresn...
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why hello, pilgrimage!: March 2009
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Why hello, pilgrimage! Monday, March 2, 2009. Store up your treasures in heaven. Last week I had the amazing opportunity to live with an Indian family. On the campus of the Mennonite Brethren Centenary Bible College in Shamshabad, near Hyderabad. And this side is Christian – not just church once a week, Jesus will save us in case Nirvana isn't all it's cracked up to be or somewhere along the karmic road you miscalculated. It seems that being a Christian outside the West is usually something like this ...
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why hello, pilgrimage!: I lied. I said I was going to India.
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Why hello, pilgrimage! Sunday, February 1, 2009. I lied. I said I was going to India. I said I was going to India to plant trees and spend time in a cult called Auroville. As it turns out. We only plant in the monsoon season, we in a hippie ecovillage called Sadhana Forest are way too diverse in belief to be any kind of cult, and we are tucked away in the wilderness far from Auroville. But I am in India, I didn't lie about that! So Sorry for lying, but what I did not expect has turned out to be amazing!
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why hello, pilgrimage!: February 2009
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Why hello, pilgrimage! Thursday, February 19, 2009. My new grandmotherly spritely friend Jay and I saw a Bolloywood film together in Bangalore the other day. Fun. : ). Although we couldn't understand absolutely any of the Hindi spoken and sung, the visuals were India just as I am experiencing it outside the doors of classy Rex Cinema. In this vision I answer him/her simplistically and holistically as I point to the screen and shrug nonchalantly- "India's pretty self-explanatory.". 8221; and gentle mother...
