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Just Below the Surface

… an invitation to slow down, look more deeply, listen more carefully, and just have eyes to see.

THE INVITATION TO MAKE

THE INVITATION TO MAKE

Even with the winter quiet, I wonder why it’s hard to hear it? Or maybe it’s not to hear it but to respond to it.  Or maybe it’s not to…
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Melody Harrell
Jan 22
Marmalade

Marmalade

It’s my birthday week! I’m turning 60. And I’ve received my first gift. I am a lucky girl!
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Melody Harrell
Jan 12, 2024
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Vigilance

Vigilance

If vigilance is what is required. Let me be vigilant about the rhythms of the world. Let me mother a bed of dahlias, Nurturing over months…
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Melody Harrell
Sep 3, 2023
THE WISEST THING I KNOW

THE WISEST THING I KNOW

This is the first, the wildest, and the wisest thing I know that the soul exists and is built entirely out of ATTENTIVENESS. Mary Oliver
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Melody Harrell
Feb 22, 2022
Biscuits

Biscuits

She’s a minister day in and day out. And double time on Sundays and youth retreats. But she’s taking a sabbatical. Four precious weeks…
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Melody Harrell
Feb 3, 2022
DON’T HESITATE

DON’T HESITATE

If you suddenly and unexpectedly feel joy, don’t hesitate. Give in to it.  There are plenty of lives and whole towns destroyed or about to…
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Melody Harrell
Aug 3, 2020
2020

2020

Initially, we froze. Frozen in the headlights of a global pandemic. We waited there one month. Two months. Three. And then April. May…
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Melody Harrell
Jul 1, 2020
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