“The world is violent and mercurial–it will have its way with you. We are saved only by love–love for each other and the love that we pour into the art we feel compelled to share: being a parent; being a writer; being a painter; being a friend. We live in a perpetually burning building, and […]
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Tending the Fire
Posted by Deborah H Rahalski on January 1, 2017
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Joshua Dubois: What the President secretly did at Sandy Hook Elementary School
My definition of a true leader in a crisis
Posted by Deborah H Rahalski on December 18, 2016
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Zen Moment New Roads
So fellow travelers, I had to head up to the high school where I work this morning to update my computer password. The smooth, glistening surface of newly paved roadways with freshly painted lines in bright whites and yellows had me pull over to snap a shot. In order to access schedules for the coming […]
Posted by Deborah H Rahalski on August 29, 2016
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Resiliency, Nets and Webs
So fellow travelers, with one of his poems today, my friend Tom Atkins made a comment on resiliency. “Life knocks us down. Sometimes we get up again. Sometimes we don’t. To this day, I don’t know where our resilience ends, or why. I don’t know where it begins, or why. I just know both are […]
Posted by Deborah H Rahalski on July 27, 2016
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Mourning Comes
So fellow travelers, I am up and on the road a good half hour earlier than my usual 6:30 am drive into work. I arrive and enter a dark and silent building, dreading the news which will come, because early morning emergency staff meetings never bring good news. So far all I know is somewhere […]
Posted by Deborah H Rahalski on March 22, 2016
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What a Difference a Year Makes- conclusion
So blessed readers the story of my journey as a rescue volunteer continues. As previously noted, rescue work is a volatile and fractured topic to write about. Proceed with caution. No one looks back at the past with unclouded vision. While time often brings insight which helps us understand what has occurred, it also tempers […]
Posted by Deborah H Rahalski on March 12, 2014
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Basket Day
It’s November, which means many things at our humble homestead. Once we’ve plowed through the “OMGawd ( that’s for my fellow Blogger Lisa Dingle whose work you can check out at justponderin.com ) it’s gonna snow any minute now” marathon of garden clearing, garage cleaning, wood stacking, recycling runs we are free to turn our thoughts […]
Posted by Deborah H Rahalski on November 10, 2013
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