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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.
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Marmalade
Marmalade
It’s my birthday week! I’m turning 60. And I’ve received my first gift. I am a lucky girl!
Melody Harrell
Jan 12
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…
Melody Harrell
Sep 3, 2023
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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
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…
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…
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…
Melody Harrell
Jul 1, 2020
Pandemic
Pandemic
What if you thought of it as the Jews consider the Sabbath — the most sacred of times? Cease from travel. Cease from buying and selling…
Melody Harrell
Mar 16, 2020
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