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Don’t Force The Duck: 19 Years After Adoption Day

Don’t Force The Duck: 19 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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Active Contentment: Puddings, Chimney-Pots & Dad’s Latte Froth

Active Contentment: Puddings, Chimney-Pots & Dad’s Latte Froth

“True contentment,” G. K. Chesterton wrote, “is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.”

So how do we cultivate such contentment?

Chesterton’s surprising connection between /kənˈtent/ and /ˈkäntent/ has lately been a world of help to me.

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The Danger of “If” & How I Stop the Birds from Nesting in My Hair

I woke up in a bad way. Anxiety, sadness and—the worst—self-pity were flying all around me. The joy-snatching “If-Birds” wanted to nest.

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The Day I Gave the Dress Away

Is nine years a long time?

Nine years is how long this little red dress hung on its plush, velvet hanger at the far side of the guest-bedroom closet. A son came, and God did not open my womb again.

And I never quite knew what to do with the silk -little, rosy red dress.

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