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by David Anderson

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  • My Spiritual Hot Spot

    David Anderson

    September 21, 2023
    My Spiritual Hot Spot

    My definition of a saint, a spiritual giant, is someone who makes other people holy, just by their presence. Someone who engenders peace in other people’s hearts, who calls forth beauty and goodness and faithfulness in other people’s lives. Nurturing your own holiness, your own peace, calling forth your own beauty and goodness and faithfulness…

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  • “Succession”: The Incredibly Shrinking Children

    David Anderson

    September 14, 2023
    “Succession”: The Incredibly Shrinking Children

    Everyone loves a deeply flawed hero or heroine. Hamlet, King David, Emma, Gatsby, Scarlett O’Hara. Despite their dark sides, we are attracted to these people because there is something good and beautiful in each of them. The tragedy is always that their goodness just isn’t strong enough to prevail. The popular TV series “Succession” appears…

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  • The Agony That Sparks Ecstasy

    David Anderson

    September 7, 2023
    The Agony That Sparks Ecstasy

    in every breathif you’re the centerof your own desiresyou’ll lose the graceof your beloved but if in every breathyou blow awayyour self claimthe ecstasy of lovewill soon arrive in every breathif you’re the centerof your own thoughtsthe sadness of autumnwill fall on you but if in every breathyou strip nakedjust like a winterthe joy of…

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  • The Soundtrack of Life

    David Anderson

    August 31, 2023
    The Soundtrack of Life

    In the last year or so I’ve been listening to scores of podcasts and as many books on Audible. Any time in the car, even twenty minutes to the grocery, I’m listening to Tolkien or Wendell Berry or a history of Mexico, ahead of our fall trip there. Washing dishes and cleaning up the house…

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  • Labyrinth Lessons

    David Anderson

    August 24, 2023
    Labyrinth Lessons

    No, no—that’s not how you do it. That’s what I was thinking as the group began to walk the labyrinth. They were here for one of the retreats that Pam and I host here at Copper House. The leader asked if the small group of six could use the labyrinth for one of their sessions,…

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  • The Musical Path To God

    David Anderson

    August 17, 2023
    The Musical Path To God

    It was a warm August night under the stars. The lead guitar sent a piercing, melodic riff skittering out across the crowd. We leapt to our feet, whooping, shouting. We knew this song. Ready to sing! Suddenly thousands of people were belting out a song that overwhelmed the sound of the band. Everyone was swaying,…

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  • What The Lover Sees

    David Anderson

    August 10, 2023
    What The Lover Sees

    If you love it enough, anything will talk to you.-George Washington Carver The arborist had come with a crew of workers to lay a great ash to rest. While he was here, I asked him to cut out an old stump that was now in a space where a garden was taking shape. The stump…

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  • We Came. We Sat. They Sang

    David Anderson

    August 3, 2023
    We Came. We Sat. They Sang

    After a run of hot days and nights, a cool spell descended. It was early morning, an almost chilly breeze in the air, and Pam and I decided to sit for meditation out on the deck. After the morning reading, we sat in silence—or so we thought. The surrounding trees seemed to teem with birds,…

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  • The Power of Pause

    David Anderson

    July 27, 2023
    The Power of Pause

    Did you open the fridge this morning? She asks.No, I reply.Well, then it was sort of open all night.What!I put that pan of peaches on the bottom shelf, she says, because they’re about to go bad—and…But you can see [Here I demonstrate] the door doesn’t close.Yes, but [Here she elbows me out of the way]…

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