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2021-10-23T22:01:15-05:00

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That Time I Accidentally Became a Prophet

Last updated on: October 23, 2021 at 10:01 pm By Jennifer Woodruff Tait

"Just in time" is over. The full toll it took on us is only beginning to be revealed. What comes next, I wonder? Read more

2021-09-27T09:53:12-05:00

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Songs of Praise – and Vocation

Last updated on: September 27, 2021 at 9:53 am By Jennifer Woodruff Tait

I’ve recently been watching previous episodes of the famous BBC TV program (I should say “programme”) Songs of Praise with my kid. If you’ve never watched Songs of Praise, the usual conceit is that they go to a place, interview some people there about their favorite hymns, and have an assembled group of local people sing the hymns in one of the local churches. It’s been going on since 1961 and although the production values, and to some degree music styles, have... Read more

2021-08-11T12:02:00-05:00

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Use the Breath: On What Music Teaches Us About Life

Last updated on: August 11, 2021 at 12:02 pm By Jennifer Woodruff Tait

Written in 2014 to honor the first anniversary of the death of a beloved college music professor. It makes odd new mediation material in the time of COVID. The phrase is difficult; use the breath, simple and soft, supple and strong. The night is hard and long with all the small collegiate traumas we will one day reflect in tranquility. Use the breath. The way is strange, the choices unclear, with two or three possible futures among them. Use the... Read more

2021-06-05T21:47:22-05:00

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A Thousand Points of Very Painful Light

Last updated on: June 5, 2021 at 9:47 pm By Jennifer Woodruff Tait

Maybe the best metaphor for autism is that other one about ducks - being nibbled to death by them. Poked to death by a thousand painful points of light. Read more

2021-06-01T10:26:22-05:00

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Coronavirus Pilgrimage

Last updated on: June 1, 2021 at 10:26 am By Jennifer Woodruff Tait

As COVID slowly reduces its risk to the level of risks I accept every day - such as getting in a car - I still find myself reduced to tears by the idea of eating in a restaurant unmasked. Forced to be an unwilling hermit, I have now become a willing one. Read more

2021-05-12T15:19:03-05:00

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This Strangest Eastertide

Last updated on: May 12, 2021 at 3:19 pm By Jennifer Woodruff Tait

Here's a friendly reminder we're still in the strange almost post-COVID Easter season.... Read more

2021-03-25T16:14:02-05:00

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Top Ten Things I’ve Forgotten How to Use During the Pandemic

Last updated on: March 25, 2021 at 4:14 pm By Jennifer Woodruff Tait

Zoom can put lipstick on you. Really. Read more

2021-02-26T22:17:20-05:00

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Beers With Jesus

Last updated on: February 26, 2021 at 10:17 pm By Jennifer Woodruff Tait

Long ago, when people could gather together, in a friendly neighborhood place that could have doubled for "Cheers," I wrote this poem. Read more

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2021-01-30T14:25:01-05:00

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Coronavirus Hermitage

Last updated on: January 30, 2021 at 2:25 pm By Jennifer Woodruff Tait

Being a hermit is hard. It was hard, as Merton's story shows, even for a man who had vowed to devote his life to living in a religious enclosure, desired and felt called to find deeper intimacy with God in silence, and had the support of his superiors and colleagues and the affirmation of his belief system. Why should we assume it would be any easier for any of the rest of us? Especially since I think probably 95% of the people who have become hermits by virtue of COVID are not actually called to the eremitic life. I'm an introvert who has worked from home for almost a decade before COVID, and I am going stark raving bonkers over here. Read more

2021-01-11T11:54:33-05:00

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Epiphany Insurrection

Last updated on: January 11, 2021 at 11:54 am By Jennifer Woodruff Tait

I wish I actually knew how to live a faithful political life in this earthly city without choosing the elite condescension of the Left or the unthinking obedience to national symbols of the Right. Read more

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