Author: <span>Maura</span>

My favorite Easters were spent at Indiana State Prison. It was the late Father Dave Link who took me behind the razor wire, where I met, talked with, and worshiped…

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https://e.givesmart.com/events/AfE/ This morning, my phone let me know that the silent auction for OTAT PDX’s annual fundraiser, the unfortunately-named Bone Ball, was live. Talk about click-bait. My heart began to…

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I don’t share my dreams very often, but last night I had a dream too fabulous to keep to myself. I had begun reading the marvelous biography of Pope Francis,…

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There was a time when Ryan Adams was interesting. He was supposed to be, as the newest rage is sometimes tagged, “Dylanesque”.  But I listened to his music, and I…

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It’s taken me more than three years to get my music room here at Zenadu arranged to match the vision I had for it when I bought my house. But…

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Father Dave.  We met on 4 June 2010 and were instant friends.  He died on 28 October 2021 and everything changed. Life is both an exterior experience and an interior…

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January The Four Loves, C. S. Lewis (HarperCollins, 1960) Here, There and Everywhere: My Life Recording the Music of The Beatles, Geoff Emerick and Howard Massey (Gotham Books, 2006) Song…

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So much to desire  during this time of coronavirus like lettuce and lemons dinner with friends Macallan’s. It is good that I know  our real wants  are few  our imaginary …

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You are gone. I know it is so. Your mailbox is yawning bored from nothing to read or maybe, as if the tube  were a pandiculating dachshund, the yawn is…

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As almost everyone will do, on this Mother’s Day I will honor my mother. As a mother, Catherine “Kitty” Rankin Poston’s three most distinctive characteristics were: she was loving; she…

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