Today’s blog Lynn Murphy Mark Sanctuary Today’s meditation from Richard Rohr quotes a man who has been to a small town in Northern New Mexico called Chimayo. It is located about an hour away from Santa Fe, is 90 miles from Albuquerque, and is known a place to go for healing. The exact spot is …
Today’s blog Lynn Murphy Mark On Doctors Living at our house is an experience in interacting with medical professionals of various kinds. I suppose we are at that age where stuff happens, often without any notice at all. Both of our bodies have been around for over 70 years. Sometimes we are good about self-care …
Today’s blog Lynn Murphy Mark Tragedy and comedy Most Friday evenings you will find us at our friend Donna’s house. We have an early dinner together and then we settle in to watch whatever strikes our fancy, or whatever Donna has carefully researched as a possible choice to view. We usually watch one movie, then …
Today’s blog Lynn Murphy Mark A good fit I live with a woman who is a laundry expert, a mattress maven and a bed sheet connoisseur. She is always on a search for the perfect mattress. Consequently we go through enough mattresses to qualify for the Guiness World Book of Records. Sadly, her efforts are …
Today’s blog Lynn Murphy Mark What’s up, March 1? Can it really be March already? And the sun is shining and the temperature is in the 40’s. Maybe Winter is over…I know better than that. This is Missouri. But it does seem like we have avoided several Winter’s bullets, unlike people to the North of …
Today’s blog Lynn Murphy Mark Ash Wednesday I know. The day has already passed. Last Wednesday I was at a meeting where people were talking about the “drive through” ash place. You just drive up, like you’re at McDonalds, and some soul makes the ash cross on your forehead. You don’t get out of your …
Today’s blog Lynn Murphy Mark A lesson in sorrow Lately, actor Bruce Willis has been in the news with his diagnosis of Frontotemporal Dementia with aphasia. In my nurse’s brain that translates into another mean neurological disease that progressively robs its victims of their personality as the disease unfolds. People with this condition may also …
Today’s blog Lynn Murphy Mark A voice from the North I belong to an organization here in St. Louis called “Women’s Voices Raised for Social Justice”. Its purpose is reflected in its title. We are a group of women, largely middle age to older than that, who pay attention to the state of our city …
Today’s blog Lynn Murphy Mark Precious threads I once wrote a poem about community and how empowering it is to belong and yet know that we are all beautiful and unique, woven from threads from many places and experiences. I still think of life as a tapestry created from so many different sources. I also …
Today’s blog Lynn Murphy Mark Our new office Legal Services of Eastern Missouri is safely ensconsed in our new place: Peabody Plaza, downtown. Last week was the first week for us and lots of things still needed to be set up in order to become a fully functioning law office. The biggest challenge, after determining …
Today’s blog Lynn Murphy Mark Privilege Last night our Racial Justice Learning Group met on Zoom, as we do on the third Thursday of every month. We have been meeting since July of 2020. So far we have read three powerful books on systemic racism and are on our fourth book this year. We read …
Today’s blog Lynn Murphy Mark Those three words Last year I wrote about a dear friend who was diagnosed with breast cancer, and what it might have felt like to hear, “You have cancer”. No one wants that phrase anywhere near them. I have Jan’s permission to write about this because we heard those very …
Today’s blog Lynn Murphy Mark Go forth and multiply This morning I got an email from my client who just got his citizenship last Friday. He and his wife worked very hard with a teacher to learn to read and write in English. This was partly so they could apply for citizenship, but mostly so …
Today’s blog Lynn Murphy Mark Downtown Yesterday I ventured into downtown St. Louis, Missouri to go to work. My previous digs were also in the city, but in an area called midtown, or the Central West End. I’m not sure where true downtown begins, but I was definitely in it. It started with me putting …
Today’s blog Lynn Murphy Mark My favorite breed Last night we watched a movie that starred a dog. He is an Akita, a breed that originally comes from Northern Japan. In the movie he was adopted by a college professor who found him wandering around the local railroad station. How he got there all alone …
Today’s blog Lynn Murphy Mark The white rocks On my desk there is a picture of Jan and me taken on Katie and Kemet’s mesa outside of Abiquiu, New Mexico. It was taken about 16 years ago and we definitely look younger. For me, though, the attraction in the picture is the background. We are …
Today’s blog Ockham’s razor Occasionally, things will pop into my mind that come from seemingly nowhere. A snippet of words from a song comes uninvited and leaves me trying to remember the rest of them. A random memory surges up and I have to visit with it for a while. I’m talking with a friend …
Today’s blog Lynn Murphy Mark Home again As our Uber driver pulled out of the driveway early yesterday morning, Cameron’s sad little face was looking out the window and he was waving. Right behind him was Alexander, wearing his new Iron Man mask, looking fierce. There are no plans for a return visit, so it …
Today’s blog Lynn Murphy Mark Beloved Community I don’t know who first coined the term “Beloved Community”, but I do know that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., referred to this phenomenon frequently. This is what we create when, as humans, we strive to meet each person’s needs, and do so with love in our hearts. …
Today’sblog Lynn Murphy Mark Playing Scramble Yesterday was a perfect travel day. Everything happened on time, it was a smooth flight, the Uber drivers were polite and timely, and our hotel room is just right. After landing we went straight to the house where all the action is. We encountered two little excited boys who …
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