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When Taking Is Giving: A Lesson on Food and Love

When Taking Is Giving: A Lesson on Food and Love

What Do I Even Take From You? That dagger was thrust at me by someone I love very much. Someone close who declines invitations for meals. Someone who doesn’t realize that sometimes to receive is to give—that sometimes not to take is to take. Honestly, before this week I hadn’t realized it either. I had…

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No Knocks on Adoption: A Follow-up on the Duck

No Knocks on Adoption: A Follow-up on the Duck

“Listen to what I mean, not what I say.” My husband knows those words well as they come from his external-processor wife. My best friends know how to “take and sift my words,” as the poet wrote. To keep what is worth keeping And with the breath of kindness Blow the rest away. But I…

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Don’t Force The Duck: 16 Years After Adoption Day

Don’t Force The Duck: 16 Years After Adoption Day

There are good reasons people choose not to adopt. I heard a lot of them. But this week, we celebrate adoption day. Don’t Force The Duck Think he’ll like the duck? I wondered aloud. No idea. We’d never done this before. Jim was as clueless as I. But I had followed the agency directions and…

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