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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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Simple Promise of Spring Renews Our Worlds, Our Purpose

by Barbara Hartsook on March 16, 2009 · 11 comments

in Conversation Over Coffee

March winds are cold in Northern Ohio along the lower edge of Lake Erie. All of Ohio south of us warms up sooner than we do. Tree buds burst and blossom and grasses turn green about three weeks ahead of us every year. Still… I look for spring. Not as in obsessing when the morning [...]

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