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My One Thing

Heather O'Shea — Tue, 09 Apr 2019 00:01:27 +0000

Long before to parent was a verb, my mother and father got some big things right. Two in particular seem worth sharing. First, if there were one piece of cake left and two siblings who wanted it, one child did the cutting, while the other got first choice. King Solomon smart, right? The other clever …

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Wherever you go and however you get there, well, sharing that ... by Don Noack
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Cranes in the Wide World

Heather O'Shea — Tue, 15 Jan 2019 23:10:20 +0000

The cranes came back today. I don’t mean the way they used to come back to Albuquerque in the fall, huge gobbling flocks settling in fields along the Rio Grande for the winter. I mean the two cranes who made themselves at home on our lanai last weekend. They came back this afternoon for another …

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Word of the Year

Heather O'Shea — Tue, 08 Jan 2019 18:05:21 +0000

About this time last year, I kept reading articles advising me to choose a word of the year. As best I remember, the idea was to reflect on your life and then choose the word that bubbled up for you. That word would then serve as a mantra, or maybe a touchstone, for the year …

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Hi Don, Thanks! Trying to get in some sort of rhythm again! by Heather O'Shea
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Heraclitus on the Beach

Heather O'Shea — Tue, 27 Nov 2018 21:56:35 +0000

I was talking on the phone with my brother on Thanksgiving evening when he said, “I don’t really care for the beach.” If you’re reading this essay you probably know that I recently crossed the whole country, from New Mexico to Florida, to live near the beach. I wondered why he doesn’t like it. “It’s …

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Pittsburgh

Heather O'Shea — Mon, 29 Oct 2018 20:50:04 +0000

It’s a chilly Sunday morning and I’m at St. David’s by the Sea in Cocoa Beach. How this good Catholic girl (eight years of school at St. Louise, followed by CCD and Notre Dame) came to be attending an Episcopal church in Florida is a long and winding story, but what matters this morning is …

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No Lie: Vultures on the Beach

Heather O'Shea — Fri, 26 Oct 2018 00:41:02 +0000

I’m trying to sort out the birds. It’s not like I’ve never been to the ocean before; it’s that this is the first time I’ve ever been here with the intention of starting a long term relationship. I don’t want to start off with a lie. A few evenings ago when the little white bird …

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Albuquerque’s North Valley

Heather O'Shea — Wed, 17 Oct 2018 15:24:56 +0000

Picture a little kid’s drawing of a house: at its simplest, a triangle perches on top of a square. Then imagine the kid with the crayon getting restless. She stretches the square into a long skinny rectangle and topples the triangle over the edge. The triangle lands in the rocks next to the rectangle and …

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Whose ditch this is, I do not know, his house is in the valley ... by Karen
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Moving to Florida

Heather O'Shea — Mon, 17 Sep 2018 21:30:04 +0000

When people say, “Why are you moving to Florida?” I don’t have an easy answer. A job? Not really. Retirement? Not that either. An ocean, I want to say, and the color green outside my windows. The weight of the air at sea level. Tall birds. A few facts and figures: Albuquerque, New Mexico sits …

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The Syro-Phoenician Woman

Heather O'Shea — Mon, 10 Sep 2018 00:51:54 +0000

[What follows is the text of the sermon I delivered this morning at St. Michael and All Angels on the text of Mark 7. I’ll be back next week with a more typical blog.] Good morning. To be fair to Fr. Joe, every time I have preached he has asked me if I’d like to …

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Lunch with Emily, Dinner with Marge

Heather O'Shea — Mon, 27 Aug 2018 22:33:13 +0000

I should have said, “It’s all journey.” It’s Wednesday afternoon. I’m pulling out of the Standard Diner parking lot after having lunch with Emily, one of my favorite millennials. I’m replaying our conversation in my head, hoping I didn’t say anything stupid that she might mistake as wise. (It’s a job hazard. All these years …

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