tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38309532024-03-14T02:08:16.040-04:00Deep Language<img src="http://people.clemson.edu/~pammack/kids/deep5.gif">Pemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15013673393201944341noreply@blogger.comBlogger1369125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3830953.post-30895885119306394342024-02-13T08:10:00.004-05:002024-02-13T09:24:49.242-05:00Darwin Day sermon<p> I haven't posted here in a long time, but it is the easy place to post the sermon I gave at <a href="https://thepeacechurch.org/" target="_blank">Peace Church</a> 2/11/2024.</p><p><b>God is Still Speaking</b></p><p><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Today is the
last Sunday before Ash Wednesday, and the reading is always the transfiguration
of Jesus, found in Matthew, Mark and Luke. We have <a href="https://lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu/texts.php?id=69#gospel_reading" target="_blank">Mark</a> this year, without much
description of what happened beyond that Jesus’s clothes became dazzling white.
Matthew says Jesus’s face shone like the sun. In either case, Jesus’s physical body
and clothes become the shining form of God’s light in the world. Notice that
what happens here is that God is expressed in matter, rather than being
separate.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxXoZb0rJnWBge0GQwitQn6sp0DTCqpxRIHfBmydsfdYYP5SELEZwGKG1ibuwO7aCIiTH2IOHx6sTzE-v86UmYtgb37ZRY4qCX-nNKXOuBN9pM7dTErKkGBBHzc7YwwdCrsAM7gA_9Xc8eneFemEH8092I9-VPXE2gZEL9-kcB5Die7-ean-rzow/s4080/PXL_20240202_143257448.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxXoZb0rJnWBge0GQwitQn6sp0DTCqpxRIHfBmydsfdYYP5SELEZwGKG1ibuwO7aCIiTH2IOHx6sTzE-v86UmYtgb37ZRY4qCX-nNKXOuBN9pM7dTErKkGBBHzc7YwwdCrsAM7gA_9Xc8eneFemEH8092I9-VPXE2gZEL9-kcB5Die7-ean-rzow/s320/PXL_20240202_143257448.jpg" width="241" /></a></div> <p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">The week
before last I hosted a young man who is <a href="http://deeplanguage.blogspot.com/2024/02/darwin-day-sermon.html" target="_blank">walking across the United States</a>, from
Washington State to Washington DC and beyond. I asked him for a word of wisdom
from his journey, and he said “Find your walk.” He then asked me for a word of
wisdom in exchange, and I said “Notice the small joys of life, like the
sunshine.” When I notice the joy of the sunshine, or the roses I bought myself
this weekend, I experience a small transfiguration of the physical world making
visible God’s light. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Aptos",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The
church has sometimes strayed into dualism that says spiritual things are good
and the physical world is evil. I would argue there are many reasons to reject
that interpretation. Remember instead our image of creation in which God says
each thing is good. The goodness of God is in all of creation, even mosquitos!</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">The transfiguration
is a particularly dramatic example of being able to see the physical and the
spiritual at the same time. The physical and the spiritual are always co-present.
<a name="_Hlk157951216">Richard Rohr says that “Through the Incarnation, God in
Jesus became flesh; God visibly moved in with the material world to help us
overcome the illusion of separation… <i><span face=""Aptos",sans-serif" style="mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The Incarnation proclaims
that matter and spirit have never been separate</span></i></a><i><span face=""Aptos",sans-serif" style="mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">.” </span></i><span face=""Aptos",sans-serif" style="mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">In other words, God became manifest in the
physical world as Jesus, and the transfiguration made especially visible that
physical body and God’s glory were merged. And it isn’t just Jesus; we are <b>all</b>
body and spirit. Thomas Merton wrote: “There is no way of telling people that
they are all walking around shining like the sun.”</span><i><span face=""Aptos",sans-serif" style="font-style: normal; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Keep
transfiguration in mind, as I turn to the science of the physical world. Today is
part of <a href="https://theclergyletterproject.org/rasweekend2024.html">Religion and Science Weekend</a>, what was called Evolution Sunday when it
started in 2004. It is celebrated at the service closest to Darwin’s birthday on
February 12. The goal is to promote the idea that religion and science are compatible
and to discuss the relationship between religion and science.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">There are
several ways to understand religion and science as compatible. Some people see
them as separate spheres that apply to different parts of life. I would agree at
least that science and religion have and should have somewhat separate methods.
I was at the Episcopal <a href="https://www.osh.org/">Convent of St. Helena</a> in Augusta once when someone asked
one of the sisters how she discerned whether God was in a choice she made. She
said if it turned out to have good fruits, then God was in it. From a
scientific point of view that is backwards logic, that that you know the right
choice by whether it worked. From a faith point of view it is a helpful answer.
Yet I don’t want to separate matter and spirit, I don’t want to compartmentalize
my thinking to separate faith and science.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Another
common approach to reconciling religion and science is to see God working
through evolution. Actually, this is tricky if you study biology a step deeper;
scientists have come to understand evolution simply as adaptation to an
environment rather than as progress towards higher forms of life. Scientists
now believe that evolution is not fundamentally progressive. That doesn’t fit
with our usual assumptions about God’s work in the work; many of us want to believe
that God bends the arc of history toward justice. But be careful, perhaps that
idea of progress is a remnant of imperialist thinking, a way of claiming that
white Europeans are more advanced than everyone else.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgF-AV0120-sIQjRk4X2XRH9XS3kBoqwUJEDnbo9epv34fUISLCRpDEIVaCICsCEprvNlTN_bI-czUcH-O_G772-wz3mwAGhh9BujljPlXvmdzLB4M0QOzlnEzCFVLd1tYwflSBz8suWRvK3bVnUCC0-vrOqPYW_QuuibtswqV3ajFcabQLpDmHog/s220/stillspeaking.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="220" data-original-width="219" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgF-AV0120-sIQjRk4X2XRH9XS3kBoqwUJEDnbo9epv34fUISLCRpDEIVaCICsCEprvNlTN_bI-czUcH-O_G772-wz3mwAGhh9BujljPlXvmdzLB4M0QOzlnEzCFVLd1tYwflSBz8suWRvK3bVnUCC0-vrOqPYW_QuuibtswqV3ajFcabQLpDmHog/w199-h200/stillspeaking.png" width="199" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Perhaps we
can avoid getting stuck there by remembering the United Church of Christ
advertisements that said <a href="https://www.bethanyunitedchurch.ca/ministers-blog/2019/2/12/god-is-still-speaking">“God is still speaking.”</a> Evolution is about change,
even if we take out progress. That can be a threatening idea or it can be a
hopeful idea. The ancient Greeks tended to assume that any change was bad news,
and we inherited from the ancient world an idea of God as absolutely
unchangeable. Some conservative Christians even refuse to acknowledge climate
change because they believe the physical world created by an unchanging God is
in at least a larger sense fixed and unchanging. <b>We</b> can take a different
approach but be patient with me, let me throw in a little history of science to
get there.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJzWTv4GeniqvuYxzCY7FUsomlC7fWZMUDe1hyeMkgkvUf4sMN53smv3TRnK7Xl4s5Z0skQG-KYZXjYkBtu6hbtYw-cxni-yHE7fUpsi3Nxze6spafjjwUtAZnmd-qnyGnBvuUW-BcWUk44ZsOzEvKfplv_e_zM4-ecQc8ooJCTep3tNPnKscMzg/s2760/PXL_20240207_143956948.MP.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2760" data-original-width="2065" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJzWTv4GeniqvuYxzCY7FUsomlC7fWZMUDe1hyeMkgkvUf4sMN53smv3TRnK7Xl4s5Z0skQG-KYZXjYkBtu6hbtYw-cxni-yHE7fUpsi3Nxze6spafjjwUtAZnmd-qnyGnBvuUW-BcWUk44ZsOzEvKfplv_e_zM4-ecQc8ooJCTep3tNPnKscMzg/w238-h320/PXL_20240207_143956948.MP.jpg" width="238" /></a></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Historically,
there are several reasons why the theory of evolution seemed threatening to Christianity.
You may assume opposition started from the literal interpretation of the bible,
but the idea of a literal interpretation was actually mostly a result rather
than a cause of Christian opposition to Darwin’s ideas. More significant was
that Darwin’s key contribution was a mechanism for evolution, a mechanism that
replaced God's creation of each individual species. Evolution conceptualized
the world as always changing rather than perfectly created by an unchanging
God. In addition, some of the opponents of evolution also rejected as
unchristian the social Darwinist idea that people were poor because they were
unfit. And indeed that was a danger of applying Darwin’s theory of evolution
too broadly and led even in the United States to a strong development of
eugenics, which still creeps in our thinking in all the ways we fail to provide
opportunities for people with disabilities.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So one reason for opposition to Darwin’s ideas
was that it made change central and at least necessary (and necessary was easily
interpreted as good). Evolution fundamentally went in a different direction
from the traditional principle that the good and God were unchanging. If science
teaches us that change and growth are fundamental in the world of matter, and
matter and spirit are never separate, do we then believe that God changes? I
think I do, though a friend surprised me by saying “of course not.” In any
case, “God is still speaking” at least tells us that our understanding of God can
and should change as the world changes. We can update our vision, or in the
words generally credited to Maya Angelou: “Do the best you can until you know
better. Then when you know better, do better.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">A few of you
might have heard me use the phrase “update your vision” before. It was actually
suggested to me by a therapist when I reflected on my role as guardian for my
disabled sister. Her group home did keep up to date with new understandings how
to provide as much autonomy and community participation as possible to intellectually disabled
people, When I became her legal guardian I had to learn those new ideas as
well. “Update your vision” became one of my principles of life, along with
“there are always more than two alternatives.” And that commitment to keep
evolving has led me to the path I’m now setting out on, looking for my
post-career creativity in a new city and a new kind of community. It’s time to
cast the nets out on the other side of the boat (John 21:4-6).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">I do believe
that God is a deep spiritual flow that suffuses our physical reality and coaxes
us towards love and healing. I tend to make decisions not by counting pros and
cons but by what has energy and excitement for me. More than a year ago, when I
had the idea of moving to St. Louis, it had great energy for me, and it still
does now even as downsizing my possessions seems endless. There is so much I
need to let go of to make room for the new. I hope that as I work out the
details I am listening to a deep enough intuition, an intuition that is an
expression of who God created me to be and of the force of healing inside me. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">To give a
silly example, I was worried that I don’t have a good sense of how my furniture
will fit into the small apartment I am moving to in St. Louis. I had picked out
a new sofa to buy, but I hesitated, fearing it would be too big. Then I got a
call last week from the manager of the senior apartment house I am moving into
saying the larger of their two elevators had failed inspection and it was going
to take two months to get the needed part. Some of my furniture may not fit
into the smaller elevator, so it may have to be kept in an apartment on the
first floor until the larger elevator is fixed. Instead of frustration, I felt
relief. Suddenly it was a good thing I hadn’t ordered the sofa yet and the
pressure is off to figure out in advance where I want the movers to put all the
furniture. My hesitation turned out to fit the flow of events and I took that
as a sign that I am on the right path.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5cAe84rN10bQ9pyFo8UCGNAbH89Mn0jWR-EqI22YzBrb1DopgrhKOL2s0pPx7IdYRo4-6DlkwNMAn3iBfqPT24jkIGh82WgDa1WM-GyF6y4bJHYrocuuycpPiNSi8UcLhVntPf0yeoBOlAQMxYUPFMxsnOBvqmZuD_-LYCMR7Cnq9P13mYK9COg/s4080/PXL_20231229_200719460.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5cAe84rN10bQ9pyFo8UCGNAbH89Mn0jWR-EqI22YzBrb1DopgrhKOL2s0pPx7IdYRo4-6DlkwNMAn3iBfqPT24jkIGh82WgDa1WM-GyF6y4bJHYrocuuycpPiNSi8UcLhVntPf0yeoBOlAQMxYUPFMxsnOBvqmZuD_-LYCMR7Cnq9P13mYK9COg/s320/PXL_20231229_200719460.jpg" width="241" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
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in St. Louis will be a ninth floor apartment on a south east corner in an
independent senior living building. Why St. Louis when I have never lived west
of the Appalachians? Because my daughter lives there but also because I am
looking forward to being in a city again. I have started visiting churches and
in fact I attended a UCC church online that also gave out epiphany stars the same day
Peace Church did. Amazingly, at both churches I got the same word: “insight”!
I’m not sure what that means, but I will start by listening for what is inside
me waiting for a chance to be expressed. This move feels like an opportunity to
let go of what I built as a Clemson professor and start a new life, one that is
smaller and deeper. Over the 38 years I have been in Clemson I have changed a
lot on the inside, but not as much on the outside. Now I will have a new life
in which to keep evolving and changing.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">If we were
to read further in the gospel text after the Transfiguration story, Jesus and
his disciples come back down the mountain and Jesus immediately returns to the
gritty work of healing. Life necessarily includes both mountain top moments and
doing the work. God keeps asking new things of us in community. The natural
world keeps evolving, and history shows us that our human world does as well,
whether for the better or not. I love the United Church of Christ for saying
that our faith will change with the world. We will keep updating our vision of what it
means to do justice and to love kindness and to walk humbly with our God and
our community.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Thank you.</span></p>
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My favorite example was a webinar on <a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/play/el50SgsV4GFcBfiC3TDgOhwf_AjZ5QhoXQ-HZVu5m-Q2tZN6KGD5J6sftsWRhSckxCpJ_a9pO4r9neI.nseBtGLsGbctBcFg?continueMode=true&_x_zm_rtaid=nDzqnY_ATrGwkuMYul-DuA.1609417379237.e1455fbc8b194f5784bc3e45bc1cb93c&_x_zm_rhtaid=40" target="_blank">Decolonizing Thoreau</a>. </div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"> </div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">What achievement are you most proud of from this year?</div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">--Speaking out for faculty in more vulnerable positions, particularly about health and safety issues. Also teaching a large class and communicating to my students that I cared about them.</div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"> </div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">What was your favorite purchase of the year and why?</div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">--<a href="https://www.llbean.com/llb/shop/504199">Warm fleece backed pants</a>. 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I only miss one or two days a month. Also going to the supermarket only once every two weeks.</div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"> </div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">What did you ask for help with this year where you're glad you did?</div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">--I told my kids I wanted a fuss made over my 65 birthday even though I used to not like birthday celebrations.</div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"> </div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">What's a skill you have learned or gained confidence with this year?</div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">--Growing my own microgreens. More obviously, teaching online.</div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"> </div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">What simple pleasures have you especially enjoyed this year?</div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">--So many! Sunshine in my living room. Foggy mornings. Tea. </div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"> </div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">What's a type of technology you've integrated into your life this year and it's working out well for you?</div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">--Zoom, both for work and family time.</div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"> </div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">What did you change your mind about this year?</div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">--Using group projects in teaching.</div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"> </div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">What did you try that didn't work out, but the process of trying it moved your thinking forward in a helpful way?</div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">--A grant proposal for international virtual exchange (my students will do a group project with students in Germany this spring even though we didn't get the grant).</div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"> </div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">How has what you enjoy shifted this year?</div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">--I definitely have learned to enjoy staying home more.</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><br /><span></span></div></div></span></div></div></div></div>Pemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15013673393201944341noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3830953.post-18394709417644353682018-12-31T07:44:00.000-05:002020-12-31T07:45:09.719-05:00Elizabeth's wedding planningElizabeth and AJ got engaged more than two years before their wedding, so it has been a lot of planning! <br />
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They thought about getting married on the 10th anniversary of their first date but settled instead on June 23, 2018. Definitely wedding season in Massachusetts, so almost all the vendor contracts were made more than a year in advance.<br />
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After many conference calls, AJ's parents, Liz and Jamey, arrived with a very full car the Monday before.<br />
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Elizabeth and AJ and best man Zach arrived the same day and we started the final organizing and ate Jamey's homemade lobster rolls:<br />
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The rest of the wedding party arrived on Wednesday and AJ and his friends had a very successful fishing trip early Thursday morning while Elizabeth and her friends had a spa morning:<br />
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Some interesting museum sights in Houston:<br />
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We stayed with friends in College Station then visited John's grandfather's grave:<br />
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In Austin we met up with John's brother and his son by his second marriage </div>
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On our way out from Austin to Dallas we stopped at Waco Mammoth National Monument, which is well worth a stop<br />
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A lovely water garden in Fort Worth by Phillip Johnson<br />
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This was one of the sights we found on the RoadTrippers app<br />
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Two interesting chapels in northwestern Arkansas</div>
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And then one of our goals, the Crystal Bridges Museum</div>
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The civil rights museum was closed on Tuesday but in Memphis we went to a scale model of the Mississippi river and the National Ornamental Metal Museum<br />
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for beautiful artifacts from Mississipian Native American Cultures</div>
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We visited the grave of Aunt Florence's parents (John's maternal grandparents) </div>
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<br />Pemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15013673393201944341noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3830953.post-84607946643087714192016-11-30T06:28:00.000-05:002016-11-30T07:57:39.159-05:00#accompany meI have been thinking this last year about building new kinds of community. One theme is the importance of organizations where we feel we belong. But another theme is how might we get away from the pressure our culture puts on us to be independent, either as an individual or as a couple.<br />
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After the election, when many vulnerable people feel so much more at risk, I wear a safety pin to say that I will walk with you or accompany you to the bathroom if you feel unsafe. But I would like to see this not as protecting the weak, but as a commitment to community, to being there for each other. How do we build communities where we can <b>all</b> show our vulnerabilities and be seen and valued?<br />
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I want to experiment with the idea of seeking someone to accompany me when I have a lonely task. We understand this already with difficult medical appointments, and we seek someone to accompany us. But could it be something we do more often, as a way of spending time with friends and as a way of not feeling so alone? I've posted on Facebook where friends will see that I am looking for someone to help me clear out and sort the papers in my husband's aunt's safe deposit box tomorrow. (She was obsessive about what she saw as important papers.)<br />
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The <a href="https://medium.com/fuckthisshit/fuckthisshit-rendtheheavens-daily-prompts-1337aefc0177#.sc6tcth4g" target="_blank">Advent meditation</a> I am following gives this verse for today, from Matthew 24:31:<br />
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he will send out his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will
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The <a href="https://medium.com/@crazypastor/fuckthisshit-day-three-6c34186a0fc#.gpml8u3b1" target="_blank">featured meditation</a> yesterday talked about the communion of struggle. How do we commit to valuing all lives? We do that by political work, but we also do that by building community where we know each other more deeply and admit that we are all vulnerable.<br />
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So what to do with those angels and their trumpets? My first reaction is that we need to save ourselves, together, not wait for angels with trumpets to replace this world with a better one. I think that is more in the spirit of the word prompt: STFU. But in the spirit of Advent when the Messiah is both coming and already here, we also need to understand that we are gathered, here and now, and that the people we don't want to see are part of the elect are with us as well. What steps can we take, in our lives as they are now, to make our communities more open and more supportive? We need that to get through the harsher times that are coming politically.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">This Advent, as we prepare for the incarnation, we
pray for all the troubles of the world.</span>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That
the arc of history may bend towards peace.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">As we prepare for the incarnation, we pray for the
leaders of our nation and of all nations.</span>
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the arc of history may bend towards justice.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">As we prepare for the incarnation, we pray for the
leaders of all faiths.</span>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That
they will be part of bending the arc of history towards hope.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">As we prepare for the incarnation, we pray for our
community in Clemson and the Upstate.</span>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That
the arc of history may bend towards caring for each other.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">As we prepare for the incarnation, we are grateful
for all with which we have been blessed.</span>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That
the arc of history may bend towards joy.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">As we prepare for the incarnation, we pray for all
who are hurting and struggling.</span>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That
the arc of all our lives may bend towards love. </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">As we prepare for the incarnation, we pray for all
who have died.</span>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
entrust them to the arc of God’s love.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">[closing collect from the prayer book] </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Dear God, accept the fervent prayers of your people;
in the multitude of your mercies, look with compassion upon us and all who turn
to you for help; for you are gracious, O lover of souls, and to you we give
glory, Creator, Son, and Holy Spirit, now and forever. <b>Amen.</b></span>
Pemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15013673393201944341noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3830953.post-62039598246419859432016-10-22T17:31:00.002-04:002016-10-22T17:31:44.256-04:00Fall bike rides<a href="http://www.tourdetugaloo.com/">Tour de Tugaloo</a>, Toccoa GA<br />
<ul>
<li>40.4 miles, 2,078 feet elevation gain, 12.3 mph</li>
<li>some flat, some parts of the ride had lots of short steep hills</li>
</ul>
<a href="http://www.blueridgeadventures.net/white_squirrel_cycling_classic/race-8/">White Squirrel Cycling Classic</a>, Brevard NC<br />
<ul>
<li>40.7 miles, 1,115 feet elevation gain, 13.3 mph</li>
<li>beautiful agricultural land along the river valleys, only a few hilly sections</li>
</ul>
Ride for Research, Anderson SC<br />
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<li> 32.3 miles, 1,622 feet elevation gain, 12.1 mph</li>
<li>windy</li>
</ul>
Shalom House Ride, Anderson SC<br />
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<li>43.5 miles, 1,513 feet elevation gain, 12.5 mph</li>
<li> some lovely roads</li>
</ul>
<a href="http://pickensrotary.org/RideToRock/">Ride to the Rock</a>, Pickens SC<br />
<ul>
<li>40.1 miles, 3,438 feet elevation gain, 11.1 mph</li>
<li>constant hills, mostly relatively short but some steep</li>
</ul>
<a href="http://upstateforever.org/preservation-ride/"> Preservation Ride</a>, Chesnee, SC<br />
<ul>
<li>39.8 miles, 2,268 elevation gain, 11.9 mph</li>
<li>lovely roads the last two thirds, first rest stop at 25 miles </li>
</ul>
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This was my first charity bike ride
since I got back to riding in July. I was quick to sign up for it
because it started from Strawberry Hill, where I like to buy peaches. I
had worked my way up to a couple of 33 mile rides around Pendleton, so I
signed up for the 40.<br />
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They started the 79 mile riders at 8 am
and the 40 and then the 20 mile riders at 9. There must have been close
to 100 in those two groups, looking more professional than the usual
group when I was doing triathlons. I didn't notice anyone else with any
kind of aerobars (used by triathletes but not by road bike riders--my
bike is set up for both).<br />
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I put the cue sheet in my top tube bag,
but I didn't look at it closely to know what to expect. For the first 5
miles I rode towards the end of the 40 mile group, passing people on
the downhills and being passed on the uphills. But after 5 miles no one
else was in sight. I saw a tandem fixing a flat tire and they later
passed me, as did a few others who must have started late. By about 10
miles the sag car had settled in behind me, thankfully staying fairly
far back but still making me very aware that I was bringing up the rear.<br />
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I fought with my feelings that they would be annoyed with having a
slower rider and that I didn't belong because I had come alone and was
slower than everyone else. The first 10 miles were on fairly busy roads
with lots of sprawl, but after that it was beautiful. I didn't push
too hard, I knew I was going farther than I had gone before and didn't
want to wear myself out too early. I had folded the cue sheet in half
and I finished the first half and so couldn't see what was coming up.
It seemed forever to get to the rest stop--it was at 25 miles and I was
running out of water. There were other people still there when I got
there, which made me feel a little better--I wasn't horribly far behind
everyone else. I filled up my water bottle and ate a banana.<br />
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There were times in the next 10 miles where I thought if there is
another hill this bad (none were horrible) I will quit. I was struggling
more mentally than physically; it was hard but not beyond what I was
ready to do. I worried about things like whether there would be any
lunch left when I got in. I was cheered by being passed by several
groups doing the 79 mile ride, every one of whom said "good job" to me.
Then the last 5 miles I caught up with three people, two of whom were
waiting for their friend who was doing the ride on his mountain bike. I
was so glad not to be alone at the end.<br />
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There was plenty of
lunch left and it was excellent: green salad, chicken, corn and bean
salad, and cut up melon. I sat down with some people who looked closer
to me in age but didn't get into their conversation. Then they left and
one of the people from the sag car sat down with me and told me how
proud he was of me for completing the ride. Again I had to fight my
negative thinking--was he impressed because I was overweight or looked
like I was struggling that badly? There are plenty of riders my age and
older, though the riders over 60 tend to look particularly fit. But I
did hear the positive as well, that the people in the sag car had been
thinking good thoughts about me and I was welcome even if I was slow. I
averaged just under 12 mph, which is what I would expect on a long ride
at this point. <a href="https://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.strava.com%2Factivities%2F715515649&h=RAQHCtvr9AQEq41F1btD8qViS3OEo591ZVSav4j6wKdPa3g&enc=AZPPKmyjX5xY9o2zpuJfbsWXwMeIgfybnVVt68f4PpFdKSUk71gm6ucn9DF2dqacXcSVDjXL7dYcbrF6AMruxs6-GHtjrgqf0KJcnDwTJfP5DmKq8YxA1yA01gy0lHYKAF0CFltDE80Ckl5rhzPIgnrJcSiRFKWTrHd44Yc5vj__DFN6pzL8_F1pIYAuWsjb5yQ&s=1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.strava.com/activities/715515649</a></div>
Pemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15013673393201944341noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3830953.post-24921098782159414582016-08-07T06:36:00.000-04:002016-11-30T06:36:32.790-05:00We are Strangers on the Earth (sermon) I chose the passage from Hebrews in the lectionary today because the idea of being strangers on the earth seeking a homeland resonated deeply with me. But sitting with it led me to think about faith. So listen particularly for two things in the reading: what it means to have faith and the idea that at times we all feel like strangers on the earth, because we know that something better is possible.<br />
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<span class="_4yxo">Hebrews 11: 1-3 and 8-16 New Revised Standard Version (NRSV and RSV) </span> 11 Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. 2 Indeed, by faith our ancestors received approval. 3 By faith we understand that the ages were prepared by the word of God, so that what is seen was made from things that are not visible. 8 By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place which he was to receive as an inheritance; and he went out, not knowing where he was to go. 9 By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a foreign land, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, heirs with him of the same promise. 10 For he looked forward to the city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God. 11 By faith Sarah herself received power to conceive, even when she was past the age, since she considered him faithful who had promised. 12 Therefore from one man, and him as good as dead, were born descendants as many as the stars of heaven and as the innumerable grains of sand by the seashore. 13 These all died in faith, not having received what was promised, but having seen it and greeted it from afar, and having acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth. 14 For people who speak thus make it clear that they are seeking a homeland. 15 If they had been thinking of that land from which they had gone out, they would have had opportunity to return. 16 But as it is, they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared for them a city.</div>
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The chapter starts by describing faith. I struggle with what faith means--different people have such different ideas. I went to the funeral of a friend’s mother yesterday and the family’s faith that their mother is now in heaven greeting her husbands is admirable but foreign to me. I worry also that some Christians seem to be saying if only we have enough faith, bad things won’t happen. I believe that understanding of faith causes a lot of harm by encouraging people to blame themselves. The description of faith in this passage is more positive. The author of Hebrews says faith is first an assurance, something firm to stand on. Second, it is belief or conviction about things not seen. But we don’t have to do that without help--the author gives the example that the creation we see around us was made by God, by what we cannot see. We aren’t simply expected to believe in things we can’t see--we can see the results even if we can’t see the cause. </div>
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A friend told me a story last week that I am carrying in my heart as an example of how the things we can see that testify to the things we can’t see. My friend grew up in Clemson, and his family had a house on the lake in the Calhoun area. One afternoon as a young teenager he went out on the lake alone in a canoe, and he came unexpectedly upon a peninsula that was full of orange butterflies, thousands and thousands of them, resting on the trees and getting ready to cross the lake. He had come upon part of the east coast monarch butterfly migration, which was following a path further west that usual that year. I imagine it felt like being able to see God. The kingdom of heaven is not something distant that we will reach after we die, it is all around us and in us. We experience the kingdom of heaven when we experience such things as joy, love, justice, mercy, and shared hopes. </div>
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On the other hand, it can be hard to have faith that the kingdom of heaven is here when we see so much pain and hatred in this world. But that is where faith as assurance of things hoped for can help--faith is still there when our optimism fails. I’m<span class="_4yxo"> not</span> someone who believes that everything that happens is God’s plan, but I do have faith that God’s love is working in the world. What I <span class="_4yxo">can</span> see is that the arc of history bends towards justice.<a href="http://www.facebook.com/hashtag/_edn1">[i]</a> We have a long way to go, but we have seen such significant progress for African-Americans, for LBGTQ people, and in care for the environment in my lifetime. To take an even larger arc, forester and philosopher Aldo Leopold said that ethics originally included only how we treated people in our family, then only how we treated people in our tribe, then only how we treated people in our nation, then the whole human race, but now we include non-human nature as well. He called that the Land Ethic. It is in that larger arc of justice that I can see the world as prepared by the word of God and slowly and irregularly moving towards living into God’s love. It isn’t easy, but it wasn’t easy then either. </div>
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Hebrews was written to a congregation that was tired and discouraged, as some of us feel today. Frederick Buechner, in his book, <span class="_4yxp">Secrets in the Dark</span>, says this about faith in the midst of chaos: “By faith we understand, if we are to understand it at all, that the madness and lostness we see all around us and within us are not the last truth about the world but only the next to last truth... It is God who made us and not we ourselves, made us out of God’s peace to live in peace, out of God’s light to dwell in light, out of God’s love to be, above all things, loved and loving. That is the last truth about the world.”<a href="http://www.facebook.com/hashtag/_edn2">[ii]</a> Faith is a foundation that leads us into the unknown—the arc of history is not a marked path. Our discomfort with the way things are going leads us--we belong in a world that lives out God’s love, so with God’s help we do what little we can to bend the arc of history. </div>
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I wonder in what ways the author of the letter felt how hard it would be to live out the teachings of Jesus. We don’t know who that author was--the Letter to the Hebrews is anonymous. It was accepted into the canon attributed to Paul, and the King James Bible lists it as one of Paul’s letters. However, modern scholarship thoroughly rejects Paul’s authorship. The style is different and the letter includes the author’s conversion story (Heb 2:1-3), one completely different from Paul’s. No early manuscripts name the author. </div>
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Anonymity is very unusual for ancient letters, which like Paul’s letters started with a greeting giving the names of the author and recipients. In 1900, Lutheran theologian Adolf von Harnack proposed the explanation that the name of the author was suppressed because the author was a woman, Paul’s co-worker Priscilla. He makes a two part argument: the letter is clearly by a member of Paul’s inner circle but there is evidence that disqualifies the other members and authorship by a woman is the best explanation of why the author’s name was suppressed.<a href="http://www.facebook.com/hashtag/_edn3">[iii]</a> The argument has been taken up more recently by Ruth Hoppin, who points out that the author of the letter also credits Ruth’s faith and names an unusual number of women as heroes of the faith elsewhere in chapter 11. <a href="http://www.facebook.com/hashtag/_edn4">[iv]</a></div>
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Scholars will continue to argue the point, but I like the idea that the author of Hebrews was a woman. I imagine that as an educated woman she felt particularly not at home in her world. She knew how difficult it would be to make the world more just. She has faith in a future she could not see and she could see similar faith in the heroes of past, which led them to not feel at home in the world they lived in. A world in which her writings could be accepted as sacred text under her own name would have felt very far away. </div>
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The words that we live as strangers in this world resonate very personally for me. I remember feeling that so strongly when I was young, and yet the world has changed around us in ways that give me more hope for feeling more at home and more faith that the kingdom of heaven is present even when we have trouble seeing it. When I was in college, studying science and learning to repair bicycles, I wanted so much to be one of the boys. Feminism saved me from my dread of being a woman; I didn’t have to be limited by gender roles. It wasn’t what I had expected, but I ended up married, though only with the agreement that we would share household tasks equally. It helped that I was the better handyman. But I still felt a stranger to the women’s roles that others enjoyed. </div>
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Years later, I read with great fascination several books on the history of hermaphrodism, what is now called intersex.<a href="http://www.facebook.com/hashtag/_edn5">[v]</a> Perhaps 5% of the population is not biologically simply male or simply female. Can you imagine being female in all visible respects until you are tested, perhaps as an athletic competitor,[vi] and discover that genetically you are male, your chromosomes are XY, but you have a genetic defect that means your body does not respond to testosterone and so externally you developed as female. Or perhaps you have mosaicism and some of your cells are XX while others are XY. I have always wondered why I was so gripped by those stories, when I am not biologically intersex. I think they captured for me how strongly I felt I didn’t fit in to the categories around me, my sense of living as a stranger. And I think many of us have ways in which we have felt almost that strongly that we don’t fit. </div>
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I have wondered whether if I had been a teenager in today’s world I would have decided I was transgender. I did know a transgender person in graduate school, but at that time it seemed a choice only for people whose feelings were much more extreme than mine. I don’t regret not having that path; I had a wonderful experience of biological motherhood. What I find exciting about today’s world is that we are moving away from having to fit everyone into rigid boxes—maybe someday everyone won’t have to declare themselves to be either male or female. I took a survey recently with some scholarly basis that characterized my gender role as 75% male and 64% female.<a href="http://www.facebook.com/hashtag/_edn6">[vii]</a> And I had that feeling of momentarily finding a home, finding a description that fit. One place where I see the arc of history bending towards justice is the much wider acceptance today of all kinds of variations of gender and sexual preference. God loves everyone; it has taken western society a long time to catch up and we aren’t done yet. </div>
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A more just world must have felt very far away to the author of Hebrews. The heroes of the faith desired a better country, a heavenly one. Part of what is going on in the passage is a reinterpretation of Jewish history to point towards a heavenly kingdom rather than a political one. Yet there is another theme in that re-interpretation, that even before the teaching of Jesus those heroes of ages past had faith there was something more, and so God is proud to be their God. I appreciate the writer’s hope that people of different beliefs share a sense of moving towards being with God, though we may understand that differently. </div>
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In our UCC belief that God is still speaking, I will take the liberty to take that idea further than the author intended to the idea of Universalism. Bruce recently wanted to describe Peace Church as Universalist on a poster, but some of us worried that would be confusing and many people wouldn’t know what it meant. Universalism is the idea that God saves everyone, of all races and cultures and no matter what wrong they have done. Universalism rejects the idea that the only way to salvation is though Jesus. The author of Hebrews says of the visionaries of the Hebrew bible: “God is not ashamed to be called their God; indeed, he has prepared a city for them.” None of us see clearly, and we use different words, but we have faith that there is a better world inside this one. </div>
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Another way of describing universalism is to say that if God’s law rules supreme then the forces of destruction will eventually be overcome and Hell will be empty. I was surprised years ago to hear an Episcopal priest say that a survey was done of Episcopal priests and the majority of them believed that everyone would go to heaven. For those of you who grew up in very judgmental churches, that may be a radical idea. And it is tricky, because most of us believe God gives us freedom, including the freedom to reject God. But we can also believe that God’s invitation to us is infinite, that everyone will eventually come to accept that invitation, if not in this life then after death. To me one of the greatest strengths of this belief is the spur it gives us to love our enemies. It moves us away from hate if we believe that everyone, however much we disagree with them, will ultimately be with God. This suggests another way of understanding faith, one that we can use immediately. We can have faith that everyone is loved by God. </div>
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So why do we feel we are strangers on the earth, desiring a better country? In some ways we can see what we know by faith in the world around us, in other ways the world seems far from what God intends. The ideas in this passage used to be understood as a rejection of the physical world around us in favor of a focus on a distant heaven that we will see after the last judgement. I have been using different words because today many of us understand the kingdom of Heaven as something already present all around us and in us, if we can only open ourselves to embrace it. God has prepared a city for us not in some distant heaven but right here, if we can see it and live into it. </div>
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If we are seeking a homeland, what would that look like? One answer is that it would be a place where we are not judged for being ourselves. No one is excluded in the kingdom of Heaven and that place is all around us and inside us if we can only embrace it. Faith is assurance of the things we need, a foundation. It is about trust in something more, while facing the difficulties of the present. We are restless, looking for a place where we can feel at home and at peace. We can do more than wander and hope; we can seek to envision and work towards the kingdom of God right here. We see the pain of the world, yet we also hold the conviction of things not seen. Faith leads somewhere that we don’t know, it calls us to move forward into the unknown to make more visible that God loves everyone. </div>
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/peacecongregational/">Peace Church Clemson</a>, 8/7/2016</div>
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1 large onion, chopped<br />
2 tblsp. olive oil<br />
1 teasp. salt<br />
1 large fennel bulb, chopped <br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi66WTotDWt8Ycmo3vyfYFEvEXIEbGfIjNWCuE4TG2x_KosDns2IfocTt_Uyf6Zseb55vkozOQcaiYJ29ONFSIW01bwJ5W4HSiP33bTFooI881AVy2t5a-cLIzREXF8ks5G-p9R3w/s1600/20160419_190334_resized.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi66WTotDWt8Ycmo3vyfYFEvEXIEbGfIjNWCuE4TG2x_KosDns2IfocTt_Uyf6Zseb55vkozOQcaiYJ29ONFSIW01bwJ5W4HSiP33bTFooI881AVy2t5a-cLIzREXF8ks5G-p9R3w/s320/20160419_190334_resized.jpg" width="180" /></a>2 cloves garlic<br />
1 1/2 lbs. ground lamb (or stew meat would work also)<br />
2 teasp. ground cumin<br />
1 teasp. ground coriander<br />
1/2 teasp. cinnamon<br />
1/2 teasp. ginger<br />
1 lb rhubarb stalks, sliced<br />
2 tblsp sorghum syrup or other sweetener<br />
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Boil the greens in a large pot of water for 2 minutes for a milder flavor, drain and set aside. Brown the onion in the olive oil, then when half cooked add the fennel. Saute until the fennel starts to soften. Add the garlic and saute a minute or so longer. Set aside the onion/fennel mixture and brown the lamb in the same pan. When the lamb is partly cooked add spices, then add the onion/fennel mixture, the greens, and the rhubarb, and stir. Cook in 300 degree oven for 30-45 minutes. Sweeten to taste.Pemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15013673393201944341noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3830953.post-82909139574011397612016-04-09T17:04:00.005-04:002016-04-09T17:08:10.679-04:00Beet Kvass<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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I started from this recipe
<a href="http://www.homemademommy.net/2013/08/how-to-make-beet-kvass-that-actually-tastes-good.html">http://www.homemademommy.net/2013/08/how-to-make-beet-kvass-that-actually-tastes-good.html</a></div>
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But I changed it so much that I will write down my own.</div>
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A Quart Jar of Beet Kvass:</div>
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Cut up a small wedge of cabbage into one to two inch
chunks, enough to fill the bottom couple of inches of a quart jar</div>
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Add a couple of small slices of ginger</div>
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Add two medium sized beets (scrubbed in cold water but
not peeled or cooked) cut into 1 to 2 inch chunks, enough to fill the jar 1/2 to
2/3 full</div>
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Add 2 teaspoons of natural salt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I use fine ground Redmond Real Salt, which is
reasonably priced and not purified</div>
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Fill with well, filtered or spring water to 1 inch from
the top of the jar.</div>
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Cover (see notes below) and let sit at cool room
temperature 3-5 days, then strain and drink the liquid.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The beets can be used a second time (I filled
the jar back up with water and added 1 teaspoon of salt) or cooked.</div>
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The salt and the acid produced by the fermentation mean
you don’t have to worry about botulism.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The way this kind of ferment will go bad is that it will grow mold, and
if that happens it is safest to throw the whole thing out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Things that help prevent mold:</div>
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sure there aren’t little bits of cabbage or anything else floating on the
surface (keep your cabbage pieces large and put the beets on top to hold them
down)</div>
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•<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>If you
have problems with mold you can increase the amount of salt to a tablespoon,
particularly if you are using kosher salt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>If you want to use less than 2 teaspoons of salt try a tablespoon of raw
honey and one teaspoon of salt, but be aware that a sweeter ferment produces
more alcohol.</div>
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•<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Use a
lid that lets the gasses produced by fermentation out and doesn’t let oxygen
in.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My current favorite is:
<a href="http://www.masontops.com/products/pickle-pipe">http://www.masontops.com/products/pickle-pipe</a>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>You can also get <a href="http://www.perfectpickler.com/vegetable-fermenting-kits/ferment-more-2-wide-mouth-add-on-systems/">plastic mason jar tops drilled for a beermakers airlock</a>
or just use a two part metal lid and screw it down firmly but not all the way
tight (or a <a href="http://www.crateandbarrel.com/fido-1-liter-jar-with-clamp-lid/s495118">clamp style lid</a> that isn’t extremely tight).</div>
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•<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Put
the jar in a dark place like a cabinet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The ideal temperature is in the low to mid 60s, but warmer or cooler
temperatures will mostly affect the speed at which it ferments—taste it and see
when it is to your liking</div>
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•<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>A thin
whitish layer on the surface, if it is not fuzzy, is ok.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That is kvam yeast.</div>
Pemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15013673393201944341noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3830953.post-16068942396940360792016-03-01T11:36:00.001-05:002016-04-12T13:51:58.252-04:00John's last daysI haven't written here in a long time, but I want a place where I can share this less publicly than in a Facebook note, and let a few friends know it is available.<br />
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</xml><![endif]-->Starting in September I was braced, feeling John
could die at any time, but he continued to decline slowly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I read a lot about death over the last year,
and it led me to wish very much to be able to talk to him about our years
together and have some closure.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He didn’t want to talk about anything
that seemed like a recognition of death, but we did have one conversation in
December with the help of his friend Debra.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He understood more that I had tried to help him grow with me, and I
understood more that it had broken his heart when I healed from childhood
trauma because I no longer needed him in the ways I had.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">John with his Aunt Florence (age 104) December 2015</td></tr>
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John was getting thinner in January and early
February, but the main way that he was losing more quality of life was that none
of us could understand more than a few words of his speech, even with the
amplifier I had bought him. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He had a bed
sore that wasn’t getting better, but he wasn’t in pain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our daughter Elizabeth visited for a week in early
February and then went back up to Boston in time to spend Valentine’s weekend
with her boyfriend.</div>
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On Feb. 14, I was planning to go to a dinner at the
Rensing Center after Peace Church, and I had a cheesecake in the back of my car
for that dinner (using up leftover ingredients that Elizabeth had bought).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But when church was over I found a message on
my phone from John, just silence, and also a message from his friend Peter Sparks, whom
John had called but Peter hadn’t been able to understand him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I called the nurse’s desk and they said John
was ok, no change.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I was concerned
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He told me that evening that he had decided to
stop eating and drinking and stop all medication except for sleep (and for pain
if needed, but he wasn’t in pain).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His
explanation was in the form of several stories about how the care had not been
as good at Clemson Downs since they expanded.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>There were times when the nurses had been impatient with him or tried to
pressure him to have his pills crushed, which he didn’t want.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was very important to him for me to know
all this; I think he needed a reason and wanted some good to come out of his death that way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He seemed a little scared; I think he thought
he would die soon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I told him that it
would be three to five days (that was my incorrect memory of what I had read—it can be 5 days to two weeks).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At that
point he wanted it to be over as soon as possible.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I got him some ice chips, which he liked.</div>
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I wasn’t sure whether his decision of that evening
would hold, but when I went back Monday afternoon after my classes he was
taking only ice chips.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was peaceful,
in no pain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I called his oldest friends,
and one, Mary Lou, said she would come from Florida to be with him the next
day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Elizabeth was uncertain about what
to do but decided to come Wednesday.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Mary Lou arrived on Tuesday and she and I struggled to understand
something he wanted to say Tuesday evening.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We first figured out it was about a party, and then to our surprise
realized he was saying he wanted to have a goodbye party that he could be at,
that weekend.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His friend Cynthia went
forward with organizing a party with the Drinking Liberals and his movie group
for Friday, but there were some people who couldn’t come Friday so I organized
a second party for Saturday.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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When I was with John he wanted me to tell people
his decision and tell him stories of our earlier days.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> I did not feel that he gave me a blessing, but he did want my care again. </span>Pastor Bruce from Peace Church visited
several times and John said yes to prayer and anointing. The hospice chaplain sang for us with his guitar.</div>
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Elizabeth arrived on Wednesday, and her first
priority was a Skype conversation on my iPad so that her boyfriend AJ could
speak to John.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>AJ asked John’s blessing
to marry his daughter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>John couldn’t say
anything understandable by that point, but he smiled.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We used that picture on the invitation to
Saturday’s party, which went out to everyone at Peace Church and his wine
friends and on Facebook.</div>
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People who saw John Thursday commented on how much
more peaceful he was than the week before, though he tried to say a few things
that we had great trouble understanding. He was able to nod and shake his head
and was clear he was not in pain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
called several of his old friends and held the phone to his ear so they could
speak to him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nurses had very different
ideas whether he would live only a few days or a week or more.</div>
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I had gone to the local funeral home to talk to
them about alternatives, as John preferred not to be cremated but I was worried
that burial in Massachusetts in February would be impractical. The costs
were indeed unreasonable, and so Elizabeth and I had talked with Bruce about
whether or not to discuss the issue with John.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We came up with the idea of asking him which wine bottle he would like
his ashes to be buried in, but by the time we brought the bottles in on Friday he
was so much less aware that we did not ask.</div>
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On Friday he was much weaker.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the afternoon I thought he was napping,
but eventually I realized that he had woken up and was hearing but with his
eyes almost closed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I sat with him and
held his hand.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our son Paul arrived and told
John that he loved him and thanked John for all he had done to support him, and
John smiled at him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We put John in the
reclining wheelchair and took him into the common room for the party Friday
evening.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His eyes were mostly closed but
we could see a small smile as people told stories about him, which varied from
how much they admired him to jokes about John meeting Scalia at the Pearly
Gates.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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I had brought clothes thinking I might spend the
night in John’s room, but I was so tired after the party and he had so clearly
been aware of what was going on that I decided to go home.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He took his sleep medicine, though he
struggled to swallow it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I told the nurse to
call me if his breathing changed.</div>
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At 4:30 am Saturday morning Feb. 20, I got a call that John
had died.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I asked if they had notified
hospice and the brain donation people, and I was told they knew I wanted to be
there so they called me first to give me a head start.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I woke Paul and Elizabeth, and Paul said he
wanted to go.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When we got there John was
still completely warm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I emailed his
friend Cynthia, who gets up very early, and she came over.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I called Pastor Bruce but he didn’t get the
message for about an hour.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Elizabeth
called to say she had decided she did want to come, so Paul went home and she
came.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I made up a little ritual saying
goodbye to John’s body and then Elizabeth and Cynthia left the room and the
hospice nurse and I wrapped John’s body.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He didn’t need cleaning, so I simply swaddled him in a soft sheet over
his clothes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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We then left the room so the hospice nurse could
wrap his head in ice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pastor Bruce
arrived and we sat in the common room waiting for the brain donation
transport.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When they arrived they put
him in a body bag and Bruce and I and Cynthia walked behind the stretcher
following him until he was loaded into the transport vehicle.</div>
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Elizabeth and I went out to breakfast because I
knew that I needed to not get too low blood sugar, and then we called people
and also got out word that the Saturday party was moved to my house.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The main snag was reaching someone at the
Cremation Society of South Carolina, but when I finally did, I was content with
the conversation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The body had been
taken to Charleston for the brain donation, so they just had to make the arrangements
to receive it when it was transported back.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> I had realized after talking with the local funeral home that I didn't need a funeral home to do anything but the cremation, and the Cremation Society was less than half the cost of cremation at a full service funeral home.</span></div>
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At least 30 people came to the party Saturday
night, bringing food, and we felt very surrounded by community.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Elizabeth had found pictures of John and put
them up all around the living room.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
kept saying that John’s death had been so peaceful and we had had such a good
chance to say goodbye that most of all I felt grateful. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I did not get to say goodbye to my father who
died in a car accident when I was small or to the stepfather who raised me, who
died while traveling, so it meant very much to have had a peaceful goodbye.</div>
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The next day Elizabeth and I went to church at
Holy Trinity in the morning and felt embraced by community again. We worked
particularly that afternoon on an <a href="https://www.facebook.com/notes/pam-mack/john-walker-mauer/10153203745927030">obituary</a> to share, with a much shorter form
for the newspaper.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At Peace Church that
evening there was a same-sex wedding as part of the regular Sunday service so
the congregation could be family to two young men who had been rejected by
their families.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Elizabeth was happy to
be their photographer.</div>
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Monday we started emptying his room at the nursing home and met with the funeral director at the
<a href="http://www.cremation-sc.com/">Cremation Society</a> to start the planning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We had already penciled in Saturday morning for the memorial service so
that Paul and AJ could get there more easily.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Tuesday we met with Pastor Bruce and roughed out the service, with
Elizabeth clearly wanting many Episcopal words, which felt like familiar, comforting
ritual to her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We decided to sing Swing
Low Sweet Chariot because John sang it as a lullaby to the kids and Joyful,
Joyful because we sang it at our wedding.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I normally print the bulletin for Peace Church, so we did the final design
later in the week and printed it on Thursday.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We also decided to do our own flowers, with the initial idea that we
wanted masses of daffodils we could get at Trader Joes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When I called Trader Joes early in the week
they were out, but when we went there on Friday they had them.</div>
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The funeral home had not wanted to promise for sure to have
the ashes before the service because the paperwork can be slow, and they hadn’t called by Friday morning, but
when we went by we were able to pick them up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Elizabeth and I drove to Charlotte to pick up AJ and then got some
takeout dinner to share with some family who came into town by dinner time—my
aunt from Washington DC and her son and wife who drove her down.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They supported us while we faced putting the
ashes into the wine bottle (which fit less than half).</div>
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Saturday Feb. 27 we went to the church early to decorate
the altar.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bruce had suggested glasses
with the bottle, and Elizabeth had found a table runner woven by John’s
grandmother that fit the altar like it was made for it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We had bought both daffodils and Japanese
iris, another favorite of John’s.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We put
the irises in the vase John had given me as an engagement present.</div>
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My youngest sister had come in from California
late Friday night and stayed at our house and helped us in the morning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My middle sister and her husband and kids
were with my mother in Florida, and our rich Florida relatives had arranged for
a Lear jet to fly them from Florida to the Clemson/Oconee County airport.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They arrived at the church about 9:30.</div>
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Elizabeth did a reading during the service, but
other than that it was Pastor Bruce doing it all; I hadn’t wanted
eulogies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He read the obituary and
talked about how he had known John in his last days.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There were about 90 people there—we had
realized over the previous week how large our community was and were somewhat
expecting that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
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There was a reception at
the church and then a lunch at the house for family and closer friends, all
with food people had brought. One of my sisters had suggested that my mother could pay for catering but I said no, you don't understand the south, people will want to bring food. I didn't even organize that part, a friend from church did. We felt so supported by so many different communities.</div>
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My family left around 3 and Paul and Elizabeth and
AJ and I took a walk in the botanical garden and I napped a little.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On Sunday I drove Elizabeth and AJ to
Charlotte to fly back to Boston.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was
so happy we had done so much of the planning and organizing the funeral
ourselves; it felt like a concrete saying goodbye and just the right amount of
time focused on that before I started back to work the next Monday.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
Pemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15013673393201944341noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3830953.post-14946019603515800082016-01-09T16:36:00.000-05:002017-07-13T16:37:22.484-04:00This is hard<div class="_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa">
I am struggling so with my lack of control in the process of John dying. No one knows whether he will live for weeks or many months longer. He feels he still has his mind so he still has some quality of life, though it is increasingly difficult to understand his speech. He can no longer enjoy wine and sold his collection.</div>
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I want reconciliation and closure; John doesn’t want to talk about anything that involves paying attention to the fact that he is dying. We talked today with the help of his friend Debra King and he understood better that if he wants me to talk about my feelings, he is going to hear my grief. He asked if I could talk about what is going on at work and I said that doesn’t feel very real to me these days, I am caught up in the intensity of his dying. We did talk some about our lives together.</div>
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I am powerless to have any effect on the situation. I keep looking for something I could do that would help him accept dying, but he doesn’t think he needs anything, he is convinced that not thinking about it is the approach that works best for him. There are choices he could make to have some control, such as refusing antibiotics, but he isn’t ready to make them.</div>
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The feeling of powerlessness and lack of control brings up childhood trauma for me. It is a panicky feeling of not being able to protect myself, not being able to have any effect on the situation. I remember in my gut what it feels like to blame myself because that is less painful than being powerless.</div>
Pemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15013673393201944341noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3830953.post-5567204786402260722015-05-29T16:43:00.000-04:002015-05-29T16:45:19.654-04:00End of life wishesJohn is mildly cognitively impaired but is losing quality of life physically, though more lowly than I expected when I last wrote about it. After always saying he didn't want to be kept alive on machines, now that death is closer he doesn't want to give up, he wants more treatment. In an effort to understand what the choices are, I wrote out what I would want so that I can then ask the question how are his wishes different. My thoughts are below:<br />
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Pam’s Definition of Quality
of life:</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Major components:</span></div>
<br />
<ul>
<li><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">The ability to
interact socially with others in some way</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Recognizing
family members</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Getting pleasure
from some food (able to swallow safely)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Being able to
spend time outdoors or at least looking out a window</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Being able to
communicate my wants and needs and be understood</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Being able to
enjoy some way of taking in information (reading, internet, music, TV)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Being reasonably
content or happy most of the time</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Not having serious
chronic pain</span></li>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"> Less crucial components:</span></div>
<br />
<ul>
<li><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Being able to
live independently</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Being able to
read books or magazines or the equivalent</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Being able to
regularly contribute something new to conversations</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Having empathy
and the ability to help others</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Having insight
into my situation</span></li>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">When I have lost two or more
of the less crucial components or one of the major ones, I don’t want CPR,
surgery (unless extremely trivial), dialysis, chemotherapy or radiation, or
medications or devices to prevent long-term disease (such as a pacemaker). <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>More generally, I do not want any treatment
that would cause months of discomfort to extend my life or that would extend my
life at the cost of significant cognitive decline or decline in mobility.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even though I have avoided them in the past,
once I am in cognitive decline I do want antidepressants and pain medication if
needed, particularly if I am no longer in touch with my spirituality.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I want to be in a group home of some sort so
I have social interaction.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">When I am starting to lose or
have lost two or more of the major components, I don’t want blood transfusions,
artificial feeding or hydration or artificial ventilation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t want hospitalization for any reason
except comfort and I don’t want treatment for heart disease, steroids for brain
swelling, or antibiotics to treat infection.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Please don’t push me to eat or drink if I stop doing so.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If pain is causing me distress, I want it
treated even if that treatment hastens my death.</span></div>
Pemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15013673393201944341noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3830953.post-857795874442944242014-11-22T20:27:00.001-05:002016-12-17T15:19:49.463-05:00Chestnut bread (grain free)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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3 tblsp butter or oil of your choice, divided<br />
1/2 cup buttermilk or whole milk or tea or almond milk<br />
1 egg<br />
1 tblsp maple syrup or honey<br />
1 cup chestnut flour or 1/2 cup chestnut flour and 1/2 cup almond meal<br />
1 tblsp coconut flour (optional)<br />
scant 1/2 teasp salt<br />
1/2 teasp baking powder (or baking soda if using buttermilk)<br />
2 to 3 oz of shelled and peeled chestnuts (optional)<br />
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Preheat oven to 400 F. Place butter in a 7 inch cast iron skillet and place in oven until melted. Leave about 1 tblsp butter in the skillet, pour the rest into a food processor or powerful blender. Add all other ingredients and blend until fairly smooth. Pour into cast iron pan and bake for about 15 minutes, until a knife in the center comes out clean. This has the texture of corn bread made with creamed corn; for a lighter texture add the tablespoon of coconut flour. For a 10 inch skillet, double the recipe and increase the baking time to 25 to 30 minutes.<br />
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<br />Pemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15013673393201944341noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3830953.post-55565146416402663972014-08-28T18:48:00.003-04:002014-08-28T19:48:07.392-04:00Update on JohnJohn is more unsteady on his feet. He can still walk from the house to the car, but with two people to keep him upright. What scared me most though was that he couldn't eat lettuce, had to pull it out of his mouth. He said it wasn't a swallowing problem but not being able to move it around his mouth to chew it. But if his tongue muscles are going, the swallowing muscles are too.<br />
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Elizabeth and I and John's wine friend David and Deborah King sat around after his birthday dinner (after he went back to the nursing home) and talked about what he soon wasn't going to be able to do. I encouraged David to move towards having the wine dinners in the small dining room at the Downs; he said sometimes he has been scared John would fall when he was helping him in and out of the car. Elizabeth found a thermostatic control that will work for John's wine refrigerators, instead of his system of adjusting timers as the temperature of the basement changes. We also talked about the swallowing problems, which David has seen, and that John's drinking fine wine would be over at the point where he has to have thickened liquids.<br />
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I brought the first two points up with John over the next several days. He said that he didn't think a new control system for the refrigerators was needed this year, though he accepted my saying it would make me feel better. He said David hadn't said anything to him about being uncomfortable about helping him in and out of the car. I didn't discuss thickening liquids--he would just say he isn't having swallowing problems.<br />
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Elizabeth and I talked about what might happen while she is away at school. We agreed that he is getting close to the point of losing quality of life and would not go to the hospital and probably not get further antibiotics if the first ones used don't work (no therapeutic escalation). She wants to come home when something happens, and we will try to have the funeral within a week.<br />
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It hurt to feel her pain facing such difficult things. I also feel so torn between my own instinct to come to terms with and plan for the end and John's denial that he is losing quality of life. I find it hard to feel my feelings when I know he would tell me that they aren't accurate.Pemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15013673393201944341noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3830953.post-8292163329008426832014-04-03T08:30:00.004-04:002014-04-05T17:32:22.312-04:00two sorrel recipes<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<strong>Beef Shanks with Sorrel</strong><br />
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about 2 lbs of sliced beef shank<br />
scant 1 tblsp of the fat of your choice (I used bacon fat)<br />
1 medium onion, halved and sliced medium thick<br />
salt and pepper<br />
1 tblsp <a href="http://www.zamourispices.com/raselhanout.html">ras el hanout</a> seasoning<br />
1/2 a preserved lemon (more or less as you prefer)<br />
dried figs--either 8 small whole or fewer cut up<br />
1 1/2 cups beef broth (if using canned you may want to use half broth, half water)<br />
4-8 ounces sorrel leaves<br />
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Preheat oven to 325. Sprinkle the beef shank with salt and brown in the fat in a dutch oven or oven-proof skillet. Add the onion before removing from the heat so the onion has a chance to brown a little. Remove from heat and sprinkle with pepper and ras el hanout seasoning. Add the preserved lemon, diced, and the figs if you want to leave them whole. Add the broth or liquid, which should come at least half way up the shanks, and bring to a boil. Transfer to the oven, covered, and cook for two hours at 325. Remove carefully from the oven, remove the shanks from the liquid, and immediately stir the sorrel into the liquid. Sorrel will wilt down to almost nothing the way spinach does--it may work better to stir it in a large handful at a time. Stir in figs if you are using them cut up. Shred or cut up the meat from the beef shanks and add it and the marrow back to the liquid. Reheat if needed and serve.<br />
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And for the leftover sorrel: <br />
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<strong>Sorrel and Celery Root Soup</strong><br />
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1 quart chicken stock<br />
2 small or 1 medium celery roots<br />
4-8 oz sorrel leaves, cut up if large<br />
some leftover chicken, diced<br />
salt to taste<br />
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Peel and chop the celery root, then cook it in the chicken stock until soft. Put the celery root pieces and some of the chicken stock in a blender or food processor and puree. Return to the pot with the rest of the stock and heat to simmering. Remove from heat and stir in the sorrel leaves and chicken meat. Adjust seasoning and servePemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15013673393201944341noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3830953.post-45067000815461033342014-02-27T10:00:00.002-05:002016-11-04T21:24:12.362-04:00Lactofermented Cranberry RelishI love this in my smoothies.<br />
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4 cups organic cranberries, picked over<br />
1 apple, peeled and cut up<br />
3-6 dates, diced<br />
1 knob of ginger, diced<br />
1 teasp salt<br />
2 tblsp honey<br />
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Process all ingredients except honey in a food processor until chopped fairly fine. Pack tightly in a quart jar, leaving at least an inch of head space, and cover with a thin layer of honey. Store in a dark place for four days or a week or more to ferment, then refrigerate. (this recipe has been updated)Pemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15013673393201944341noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3830953.post-13527268204143674542014-02-09T08:49:00.002-05:002014-02-09T09:07:41.944-05:00tough decisionI'm getting close to deciding John has to go into a nursing home, whether he agrees or not. He would say can't he stay home with more help, but that doesn't seem realistic to me.<br />
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A couple of weeks ago he suddenly got much worse, unable to transfer at all (we basically had to lift him between chair or toilet and wheelchair). We thought that might be a urinary tract infection and with antibiotics he got somewhat better. But he didn't get back to where he was; he can occasionally use the walker but mostly he is in a wheelchair. He has a lot of tremor in his hands; food ends up on the floor when he eats. He spends many hours a day on the toilet: trying to urinate, dealing with constipation or diarrhea (trying to avoid bowel incontinence), cleaning himself. Occasionally he has to cath himself.<br />
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Unless it is a particularly good day, he can no longer heat up his own leftovers (or frozen prepared food) or make his own smoothie. He is falling perhaps on average once a day, and fairly often it takes our son and I together to get him up.<br />
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If it was likely he only had a few months to live I would keep him home. But it isn't clear what symptom he will die of. The most likely one would be swallowing problems leading to pneumonia, but his swallowing isn't noticeably getting worse.<br />
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He desperately wants to be home. We had a conversation with the hospice nurse, who felt he wasn't safe at home because of falls. He proposed more help in the evening and also agreed to a monitoring camera so I can check on him. He said "anything is better than what Pam is thinking." But what I am thinking is that I can no longer give him the care he needs. He is not getting all the help he needs to sleep comfortably because I need to go to bed. There aren't always going to be 2 of us here to pick him up. He isn't taking his medicine much of the time unless I put it out for him.<br />
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Yesterday I had a bad sore throat and wanted to rest and stay away from him. When he woke up I did push him into the bathroom and change his briefs and pants for him and get him icewater. I think he was in the bathroom all afternoon. When I went downstairs to tell him I would bring him down his dinner he said he would fix himself something else to avoid my germs. But then he sent Paul up for the stew I had made; he realized he couldn't manage getting himself something and he needed food. He told me he did want me to get him ready for bed, but then he changed his mind when I said it needed to be at 8 pm because I needed to go to bed early. I was woken twice, though I didn't have to get up. Once was by a phone call that John didn't get to, probably because he was in the bathroom again. And once was by him calling for Paul, I'm guessing to help him get his pillows so he doesn't fall sideways over the arm of his recliner.Pemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15013673393201944341noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3830953.post-28687770579755865642014-01-19T16:38:00.000-05:002014-01-19T22:04:08.103-05:00letting go of controlI haven't written here about personal struggles in a long time, but I have a feeling that this current one is going to be complicated enough that it will be useful to have a record and perhaps find people who want to talk about these issues. The challenge I face is letting go of some control, but control makes me feel safe. This is a challenge where I do want to learn to do it differently.<br />
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The immediate situation is that John has started on palliative care/hospice. From the beginning six years ago his disease has been one that has no cure, nothing but treatment for symptoms. But we settled into trying to maintain his quality of life. I researched the disease and made suggestions. Sometimes he refused, sometimes he resisted but then when he tried it told me I was right. In the last year his decline has been faster and he has also been much more resistant. When I asked the doctor about palliative care, I didn't expect that John would qualify for care funded by hospice, but he did. What hospice means to me is a transition from him living with the disease to dying of the disease, though I say that with the expectation that he has 6 months to a year to live. But I also realize that their job is to lead us through this process.<br />
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Today in church the sermon was about John 1:29-42 and the preacher noted that the first words Jesus says in John's gospel are "What are you looking for?" (John 1:38). The sermon called for us to listen deeply to the answer to that question inside us and trust the journey. I felt that fit with my thoughts about letting go of control. But where I got struck is that my first answer to what is my deepest yearning is “safety.” That comes from childhood experiences of abuse and my first father’s death in a car accident, which also makes me feel that God doesn’t protect us. So I had settled into an approach that the closest I can come to safety is trying to see what is coming down the road and figure out how to manage it as best as is possible. That kind of control has worked fairly well for me, so it is very hard to think about letting go of it even partially.
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The letting go of control I imagine is letting go (though not completely) of my role as researcher and advocate. I initially pushed hospice to arrange for John to continue physical therapy, though it turns out that his physical therapist was already thinking it was time to give up. One motivation for pushing that was that it was important to John, but it was also a way of maintaining my role as the one who fights for what John needs. I realized I need to some extent to let Hospice be the ones who know what John needs. But then I have to face my own powerlessness instead of hiding it behind a front.<br />
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John is clearly continuing to decline--today he called me to put on his briefs for him, which he has been stubborn about doing himself. He leans on my arm heavily when we go out, but he does still get out. He doesn't seem like someone who is dying at this point, but he is increasingly vulnerable as his autonomic nervous system fails. And he has been clear all along that he would like to die of something else before his quality of life is gone.Pemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15013673393201944341noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3830953.post-83332547803375021282013-11-23T18:34:00.001-05:002014-01-19T20:56:33.241-05:00Lamb Koftaleaves from two sprigs of sage <br />
1/4 cup pistachios<br />
1/4 cup golden raisins<br />
1 teasp ras el hanout seasoning<br />
2 teasp zaatar seasoning (or 1 teasp sumac) <br />
1/2 teasp sea salt<br />
1 1/2 lbs ground lamb<br />
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Chop all ingredients except the lamb in a food processor. Add lamb and process until combined and shape into elongated burgers. Grill until medium rare (on skewers if you want, but they work fine without). Serve with yogurt.<br />
<br />Pemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15013673393201944341noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3830953.post-67449652652559284422013-09-14T19:37:00.001-04:002013-09-14T19:37:39.944-04:00Paleo Chutney2 lbs apples, peeled and chopped<br />
1.5 lbs pears, peeled and chopped<br />
1 cup cider (I used frozen cooked fresh figs in their liquid instead)<br />
1 cup golden raisins<br />
6 prunes, chopped (because that was how many I had)<br />
1 cup cider vinegar<br />
1 inch square of ginger root, or more, chopped fine<br />
1 teasp salt <br />
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Cook apples, pears and cider until they soften some. Add raisins, prunes, vinegar and ginger and cook until thick, stirring occasionally at first and more often as the water boils away. This should be safe for boiling water bath canning because the vinegar provides enough acidity even though it doesn't have sugar.<br />
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<br />Pemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15013673393201944341noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3830953.post-91050359436534123382013-08-24T14:00:00.001-04:002013-08-24T14:01:11.731-04:00Melanoma updateThe healing from melanoma surgery on my upper arm went very smoothly--I had hardly any pain. I went back to swimming a few days after two weeks on the advice of the lymphedema specialist, and I think my scar may have ended up a little more stretched out and raised than it otherwise would have been, but I didn't lose any range of motion in my shoulder, which is what I most cared about. And I didn't use the scar sheets to minimize the scar because they didn't stay on as much as I move my arm. I had tightness and cording keep starting up in my arm for the first 6 weeks but I kept swimming and it went away.<br />
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Hearing that I had several long plane flights coming up, the lymphedema specialist (occupational therapist) ordered me a custom compression<br />
sleeve. She warned me that lymphedema can develop when only one or two lymph nodes have been removed and often takes more than a year to appear. I haven't worn the sleeve full time, but I wear it for 2-4 hours most days and for air travel. She says she feels some fluid retention and I notice my arm sometimes feels strange (heavy maybe fits) so I want to be cautious. I did see another lymphedema specialist (this one a physical therapist) who didn't think I had a problem at all, but she gave me the exercises I wanted to fight cording.<br />
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It doesn't feel over because at my 3 month appointment with the dermatologist he removed two moles, one of which came back atypical. And that one was at the edge of the scar from the melanoma wide excision. So I had a wider excision of that mole a few days ago. <br />
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two apples peeled and sliced<br />
2 tblsp butter<br />
2 tblsp maple syrup <br />
5 egg whites<br />
1/4 teasp cream of tartar <br />
3 cups apple sauce (we used homemade)<br />
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Preheat oven to 450. Cook sliced apples in butter in a deep straight sided saute pan until both sides are browned. Drizzle maple syrup over the apples. Beat egg whites with cream of tartar until they form medium stiff peaks. Fold applesauce gently into the egg whites. Pour over the warm apple slices and place immediately in oven. Cook at 450 for 15 minutes or until brown, then turn off the oven and leave souffle in the oven for at least another 20 minutes. <br />
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<br />Pemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15013673393201944341noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3830953.post-38869122022671278762013-05-31T14:43:00.000-04:002013-06-01T07:12:09.501-04:00Winter squash au gratin3/4 cup pine nuts<br />
2 tablespoons melted butter<br />
1 large onion, chopped<br />
2 teaspoons minced garlic<br />
1 large winter squash (3-4 lbs)<br />
1 1/2 cups whipping cream<br />
1 1/2 cups whole milk<br />
1 teaspoon fresh thyme<br />
1/2 teaspoon coriander<br />
1/4 teaspoon mace<br />
Salt and pepper<br />
1/2 cup grated Parmesan<br />
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Toast pine nuts. Melt butter and cook the onion until soft and beginning to brown. Add the garlic and then put aside in a bowl. Deglaze the pan with the milk. Add cream, squash, and spices and simmer until squash is soft. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Preheat oven to 425.<br />
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Mix in onions and transfer to lightly greased baking dish. Sprinkle with cheese. Bake at 450 for 10 minutes. If it is not browning on the top, turn on the broiler for a few minutes, watching carefully. Sprinkle with the reserved pine nuts.<br />
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From James McNair's squash cookbook, with minor modifications.Pemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15013673393201944341noreply@blogger.com0