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Edward Goode
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Autumn poetic words from a friend and autumn photos from me #autumn #beauty #poetry #prayer

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For Autumn - Arianne’s Words and My Photos
We are sadly coming to the end of what has been a beautiful Autumn around here. It seemed to start slowly but then changed oh so very quickly into the gorgeous rainbow of colors that Autumn brings. ...
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November 6, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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New 2026 calendars - Psalms With Scout, Herons, and Expansiveness - along with sacred songs and autumn colors #herons #calendars #2026 #autumn #psalms

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Calendars, Sacred Songs, and Colors
2026 Calendars are available, Sacred Songs, and stunning colors of peak Autumn around here
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November 2, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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The expansiveness of music and the gift of Jon Batiste
#jonbatiste #music #expansive

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The Expansiveness of Music
Normally, I share here about photography but today it is about music (with some photographs thrown in of course).  This week had two beautiful musical experiences that are still resonating with me.
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October 27, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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Happy benchiversary! Returning to a place I spent a lot of time with last year

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Happy Benchiversary!
In which I give thanks for 250+ new subscribers and go back a year to Acadia but even more so a year ago when the muse started to speak about the 745am bench photos.
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October 15, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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@weratedogs.com This is Scout. She is a master of camouflage. You can’t actually see her.

But if you could see her you would learn that she is also the master of the side eye

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October 13, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Thank you Dr. Jane Goodall. Thank you.
Giving thanks for the courageous and beautiful witness of Dr. Jane Goodall. Lot of photos but primarily her words and her insights. #janegoodall #courage #environment #creation #photography #hope #witness

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Thank you Dr. Jane Goodall. Thank you.
Several days ago, we lost one of the most courageous, strong, and beautiful people in the world. Not a politician, a sports/movie star, or an internet “influencer.” Instead a quiet but brilliant woman...
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October 4, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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A leaf, a turtle, a caterpillar, and a snail - Noticing what stands out from the rest and being what stands out from the rest.
🍁 🐢 🐛 🐌 💜 #hannareichel #forsuchatimeasthis #courage #lessonsfromnature #autumn #bokeh

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A Leaf, A Turtle, A Caterpillar, and a Snail
How these four noticings and actions challenge us to be bold and couragous for such a time as this.
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September 29, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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The Autumn Switch Has Been Flipped - The Beautiful Unseen - #autumn #equinox #fall #heron

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The Autumn Switch Has Been Flipped - The Beautiful Unseen
Honestly, I didn’t realize that Monday was the Autumn Equinox but I sent a message to my family while out with Scout that it felt like a switch had been flipped and Autumn was here.
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September 23, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Remembering the… well everything of the wisdom of Walter Brueggemann. See something, say something. #walterbrueggemann #justice #redefine #fountain #hands #receive #share

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See Something, Say Something - Remembering the Everything of “Uncle Walt”
I was walking through the airport a few weeks back after helping one of our kids get moved back into college and I heard the now-familiar announcement from TSA: If you see something, say something...I...
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September 21, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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Expansive - The Never Before Seen (at least by me)
Herons in strange places, new church starts, and the expansiveness of the new in the never before seen. #heron #nature #newchurch @resoundingjoychurc.bsky.social www.imagoscriptura.com/p/expansive-...
Expansive - The Never Before Seen (at least by me)
“Will you seek to serve the people with energy, intelligence, imagination, and love?”  I am grateful to be learning more and more about these, but especially about imagination...
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September 7, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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Expansive Empathy - how a goose and gravestones speak to honoring the stories and experiences of others. #goose #graves #empathy #listening #natureisspeaking

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Expansive Empathy - Geese and Gravestones
Full disclosure - I’m not a big fan of Canadian Geese.  But let's talk about this one particiular Canadian Goose...
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September 1, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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Expansive poetry, Psalms, Music, and Spiderwebs
#jonbatiste #rilke #psalms #firstnations #spiderweb #morningdew #davidwilcox
Rilke, Indigenous Psalms, New Music (Jon Batiste and David Wilcox), and Spiderwebs...All Expansive
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Rilke, Indigenous Psalms, New Music (Jon Batiste and David Wilcox), and Spiderwebs...All Expansive
A reflection mixing Rilke, a new translation of hte Pslams, stunning new music, and a dew-drenched beautiful morning walk surrounded by glistening spiderwebs
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August 30, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Expansive - The Marvelous Abundance of Being #expansive #sunrise #heron #beauty #gratitude
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Expansive - The Marvelous Abundance of Being
In spite of Fate, the marvelous abundanceof being, like the brimming land or like stone figures built into gateways, bearing up balconies.
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August 24, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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Seeing doorways in nature and the sun burning through a chain link fence. All expansive…
#expansive #trees #doorways #chainlink #jesus #isaiah
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Seeing doorways in nature and the sun burning through a chain link fence. All expansive…
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August 19, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.
August 13, 2025 at 6:06 AM
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How an expansive theology sees the multitudes in each and in all #lifeofchuck #joannamacy #beauty #imagodei #imageofgod #all #each #macro #wide

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An Expansive Theology - Joanna, Chuck, Me, Scout, Us
Fitting that a post about an expansive theology would be too long for email.
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August 10, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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Continuing my playing with “expansive”…looking to the often-unseen to experience the expansive. Glory rays, spiderwebs, and awkward postures. #awkward #expansive #spiderwebs

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Expansive - Revealing the Otherwise Unseen
A friend of mine was recently speaking at a conference in Iowa and during a text exchange, I said something about her waking up in “open sky country.” After living in Colorado and South Dakota for mor...
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August 3, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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The beautiful power of a run on sentence to open us up to something bigger, more expansive #expansive #rossgay #awe #flowers #delight

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Expansive - One Long Run on Sentence
I am slowly (in a savoring sort of way) working my way through Ross Gay’s The Book of Delights and a few days ago I came to this amazing and epic run-on sentence (201 words btw) that was part of his r...
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July 30, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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Wrapping up my reflecting on #onbeing’s reflecting on hope

#hope #attention #seeing

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Hope Wrap-up - Paying Attention
For the last 49 days, I’ve been drawing inspiration from the OnBeing series they’ve shared this summer they entitled The Hope Portal.
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July 20, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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Delight Radar Day 3 - Rainy day, dog in towel, Toy Story aliens, soap, blooming flowers, and geese #onbeing #hopeportal #hope #aliens #toystory #dogsofbluesky #geese
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Delight Radar Day 3
Rainy day, dog in towel, Toy Story aliens, soap, blooming flowers, and geese
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July 15, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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Reflecting on the relationship of Hope, death, the poetry of Rilke and a life of a dear man named Phil.
#hope #rilke #life #death

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Hope, Rilke, and Phil
A man named Phil introduced me to the poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke, the poet that Joanna Macy quoted in this week’s OnBeing Hope Portal. Here’s the poem once again:
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July 5, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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Staring down into the night sky - observing and what it can to to transform

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Schrödinger’s Hope - Staring Down into the Night Sky
Ok - so Schrödinger’s Hope...my weird brain went to Schrödinger when I heard this from Joanna Macy in this week’s OnBeing conversation about Grief and Hope...It only doesn’t change if we refuse to loo...
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July 4, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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Next reflection on hope inspired by @onbeing.bsky.social and their series on hope plus revisiting a few posts from a year ago celebrating the anniversary of my ordination.
#hope #grief #ordination

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Hope and Grief - (with some more Hope-etry)
A few announcements, then OnBeing's Hope Portal Week 4 - hope, grief, a railing, a spiderweb, and then some summer flowers...
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June 29, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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Hope-etry - My Poem
My amateur attempt at a poem about hope and a way you can craft one yourself as well!
#poetry #hope #onbeing #kristatippett #sunrise #photography #20minutes
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Hope-etry - My Poem
So for my last “Hope-etry” sharing before the next The On Being Project Hope Portal podcast, I thought I would give a go at putting together something of a poem.
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June 27, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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I know that hate can unleash vast energies, but so can love.
June 22, 2025 at 12:01 PM