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by David Anderson

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  • The Power To Fall

    David Anderson

    July 20, 2023
    The Power To Fall

    I remember the day Pam got off the train, from her increasingly miserable daily commute into New York City, and said, “I am done with this.” We had two little girls and I wasn’t earning much in my first job out of seminary. She made more than I did. How were we going to survive?…

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  • The Return of Innocence: A Week With Two Children

    David Anderson

    July 13, 2023
    The Return of Innocence: A Week With Two Children

    Our grandchildren, ages eight and four, are with us for a week. All day every day. By about day four an adult reaches a saturation point and becomes, in some sense, a child too. After days and nights participating in play, story, physical and imaginative games, make-believe, general silliness, and the deep need for security…

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  • Family Estrangement

    David Anderson

    July 6, 2023
    Family Estrangement

    Cleaning out a basement closet today, I find, stuffed in a box of old sermons and random papers, a twenty-year-old photocopy of an obituary for Robert Foster Anderson. There’s a grainy picture of a man in a white cap. He looks like my Dad, but I never met him. The obit said he had a…

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  • The Big Fix

    David Anderson

    June 29, 2023
    The Big Fix

    We tend to approach whatever’s wrong in our lives with a discrete “fix,” even though what’s mostly called for is something wholistic, systemic. I was reminded of that mistaken tendency when I read an article by the Surgeon General, who has made loneliness a major focus of his work. Loneliness, I thought? With all the…

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  • Rescue Me

    David Anderson

    June 22, 2023
    Rescue Me

    Five people are trapped in a titanium tube on the floor of the Atlantic ocean, and I can’t get them off my mind. I am constantly checking my news feed. Sonar is picking up tapping sounds. Hope surges, then I read how unlikely it is that help could arrive in time. In some real way…

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  • Last Will and Testament

    David Anderson

    June 15, 2023
    Last Will and Testament

    Don’t stop thinking about tomorrowDon’t stop, it’ll soon be here-Fleetwood Mac Prince died without a will. So did Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King, Jr., Jimi Hendrix, Pablo Picasso, Howard Hughes. Something like 64% of Americans don’t have a will, and for good reason, as I found out when we updated our wills from 29 years…

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  • Seven Thousand Miracles

    David Anderson

    June 8, 2023
    Seven Thousand Miracles

    Vincent Donovan, a missionary in Africa, wrote of working with the Masai many years ago. He said the people were all sitting very respectfully listening to him as the priest, and he was teaching them about the Seven Sacraments of the Church. He described a sacrament as a physical encounter or event in which you…

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  • When Home Isn’t Where You Left It

    David Anderson

    June 1, 2023
    When Home Isn’t Where You Left It

    I think of South Dakota, the place I left on my way to college, as Garrison Keillor’s Lake Woebegone: “The little town that time forgot and the decades cannot improve.” But, as I found on my visit last week, time has not unremembered my old home. It’s both the same as ever, and yet dramatically…

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  • Struck By Awe

    David Anderson

    May 25, 2023
    Struck By Awe

    A few days ago I walked to the rim of the Grand Canyon and looked over the edge. I felt a twinge in my stomach and my mouth dropped slightly open. My first visit—I don’t know what I was expecting. I had seen countless pictures, but of course no flat image, measured in inches, could…

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