Liminality and the Academy at the Beach!

Sunrise is one kind of transition, of course, between night and day, dark and light, even old and new. My recent meditations about sunrise have much to do with the dawn, if you will, of…

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Another Golden Day, Thinking . . .

I know. You’re thinking this is the same sunrise photo you saw here last post. Or you know it’s a different one, but you’re thinking “Enough already with the pretty sunrises.” I know what you…

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Morning Reflections

I’ve been re-thinking my morning habit. Up until five or six years ago, I started my day with a cup of tea that I took back to bed, settling in with whatever book I was…

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All My Faces . . .

 Lisa at AmidPrivilege wrote a probing, thoughtful post last Saturday on on-line personae and authentic selves.  Of course, we in the post-structuralist, postmodern Humanities no longer believe in authenticity of the self anyway. But most…

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Roses and Weddings and a Mother’s Rambling Thoughts

Bride-to-be picked up the succulents for her floral/table arrangements yesterday and she and her future mom-in-law and a girlfriend, I think, put them together in the vases her guy had scrounged up. I wish I’d…

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