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Dust is a Verb?

by Barbara Hartsook on March 23, 2009 · 12 comments

in Conversation Over Coffee

It’s spring, that time of year when we used to clean our houses thoroughly. In fact, when my sisters and I were growing up in our small town, foregoing this yearly ritual was considered a social and cultural taboo. If you weren’t scrubbing and airing-out and waxing and buffing the same week as your neighbors, [...]

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Why would anyone come to read my blog Over Coffee? Or any blog for that matter? The question was the first in my blogging class homework assignment, and it has kept me wondering for the past two weeks. Why indeed? Why read my blog? For the same reasons I read those similar to mine, I [...]

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Life’s Small Textures

by Barbara Hartsook on June 1, 2008 · 16 comments

in Conversation Over Coffee

Life is not without it’s surprises and seeming failures. Almost daily. Even when the day is planned to the hour, in some cases the minute. And just like the famous Biblical quote in Romans, paraphrased here by me, God weaves all our daily entanglements and urgencies and oopsies together for good if we love and [...]

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Dani fills a blank journal with scraps and snippets. Pages of print fonts. Paragraphs she’s cut out or creative pieces she’s written herself, and pictures cut from specialty papers or photos she’s taken. Both sides of every page are filled with whatever pleases her visually. I see no particular continuity to it, yet I love [...]

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