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  • Autumn, Melancholy, and Suicide

    It’s the middle of autumn. November. A wintry wind has been whirling around my world the last week or so. This wind knocked the power out twice within a week, which was less than pleasant for me. A power outage is a very reliable trigger for me, one that ramps…

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  • Fifty-Five

    Fifty-Five

    Way back in post Thirty-Four, I talked about the Fibonacci sequence of numbers, the series that begins: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21,…

  • Fifty-Four

    Fifty-Four

    A regular deck of cards, as we saw a few days ago, has fifty-two cards. However, most such decks also come with two extra cards:…

  • The Third Way (Sermon)

    The Third Way (Sermon)

    This is an adapted form of the sermon I preached this morning, the Seventh Sunday after Epiphany. The gospel reading was Luke 6:27-38.  We live…

  • Fifty-Three

    Fifty-Three

    Companies and organizations operate on a fiscal year, which need not coincide with the change of a calendar year. By defining a fiscal year as…

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I’m Michael, the author of this blog. I search for meaning through walking labyrinths, through exploring my Christian faith and my experience of depression, through preaching, and through writing about it for you.