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July 2018

July 30, 2018

Wabi-Sabi: Living with Beauty and Ugliness

Yesterday, a man might have killed me. Both receptionists were away from the counter when...

November 2016

November 10, 2016

The Final Roll Call

As a little girl, I remember watching the grownups in my hometown Episcopal church cross...

September 2015

September 11, 2015

Seeking Refuge

By Shannon Huffman Polson I’d just put my two young sons to bed when I...

April 2014

April 24, 2014

Voices in the Methow Valley

Spring in the Methow Valley of Northeastern Washington comes quietly, a gradual warming, winter grass...

March 2014

March 24, 2014

When the Matches Go Out

When Marie-Henri Beyle visited Florence, that city named for its place among waters, he thought...

February 2014

February 28, 2014

Blaze: David Wilcox Opens the Heart, Part 2

This interview with singer-writer David Wilcox, whose new album blaze released this week, is continued...

February 27, 2014

Blaze: David Wilcox Opens the Heart, Part 1

David Wilcox describes himself as a “father, a husband, a citizen and a songwriter…a traveler—an...

February 11, 2014

A Blaze of Holy Unease, Part 2

Continued from yesterday. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin saw creation as dynamic in matter and spirit,...

February 10, 2014

A Blaze of Holy Unease, Part 1

"Great are the works of the Lord; they are pondered by all who delight in...

January 2014

January 10, 2014

Each Woman Mary, Each Child Christ

I found respite recently in Jeanne Murray Walker’s essay on Alice Munro in Image, describing...

December 2013

December 06, 2013

Rich in Rituals

I spent fifteen months in South Korea once on a military base we knew would...

November 2013

November 18, 2013

The Final Roll Call

As a little girl, I remember watching the grownups in my hometown Episcopal church cross...

October 2013

October 29, 2013

Eve, the Apple, and the Need To Know: The Imago Dei Project

I’ve been thinking about Genesis lately. In this past month, the lectionary included Eve’s succumbing...

September 2013

September 29, 2013

Wabi-sabi: Living with Beauty and Ugliness

Yesterday, a man might have killed me. Both receptionists were away from the counter when...

August 2013

August 18, 2013

Can I See You?

The vision test for the Army aviation pilot school application caused great angst among my...

July 2013

July 31, 2013

Cutting Away the Noise

Fifteen years ago, there was no end to the noise. It took a cutting to...

July 12, 2013

The Narratives We Need, Part 2

Continued from yesterday. Recently I sang Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem with the Seattle Symphony. In...

July 11, 2013

The Narratives We Need, Part 1

“Tell me a story,” my son has started to say after reading his bedtime books....

June 2013

June 17, 2013

Looking for a Father

The last Father’s Day card I sent to my father came back to me, returned...

May 2013

May 31, 2013

Lamenting an Imperfect Friendship

Walking on the sidewalk of Spokane, I read an email that made me stop still....

May 08, 2013

The Marrow of Prayer

Early this year, Spanish researchers published a peer-reviewed paper considering the evidence of social learning...

April 2013

April 19, 2013

The Eucharist: Eat, Eat!

Good Letters welcomes Shannon Huffman Polson to our blogging team. Her memoir North of Hope:...

March 2013

March 27, 2013

How to Visit a Grave

Guest Post By Shannon Huffman Polson 1. Drive down unmarked road in rental car to...

December 2012

December 11, 2012

Alone at Christmas

By Shannon Huffman Polson I went alone that Christmas to a place far away from...