The Daily Respite
Good morning! It’s Friday, and I’ve started a new game. Whenever I go on walks in the woods, I look around and try to find spots where I’d live if I were an animal. The more you look, the more you find. Sometimes it’ll be an obvious spot, like a cave between granite boulders. I…
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Good morning! Today is Thursday. For whoever needs to hear and see this today, which may very well be all of us… “Affection is responsible for…
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Good morning! It’s Wednesday. Oscar Wilde wrote that conversation about the weather “is the last refuge of the unimaginative,” and I’ve been talking…
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Good morning! It’s Tuesday. I have three weather apps on my phone, and they never agree on anything. But yesterday they all gave the same dire warnings…
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Good morning! It’s Monday. In the United States, we honor the legacy of slain civil lights leader Martin Luther King Jr. While campaigning for the…
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Good morning! Happy Sunday. I’d planned to take you down to the pond with me today for a crunchy expedition across the ice. But 40mph winds and a -22F…
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Good morning! It’s Saturday. Ready for a topography story? We live on a narrow, oblong slant of land that goes all the way down to the pond that’s…
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January 14 Get-Together: Moon RiverHello dearest Respiteers! Tis Friday and our gathering space is open and eager for you to come inside and make yourself comfortable. As always, …
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