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Web Notes When We Are Scattered – December 17, 2020

by Martha Brunell

Connected While We Are Apart What Are We Waiting For? There was a considerable wait from the morning when I discovered this hoarfrost-covered nest perched on the drainpipe on the front of the parsonage in February 2018 and the hatching of the first baby robins in the spring to come.  I knew the nest well.  […]

Web Notes When We Are Scattered – December 15, 2020

by Martha Brunell

Connected While Apart From the Bench Monarch Waystation Bench 12.13.20 Dear Mayfield, There are so many benches to sit on:  waiting room benches in a train station, piano benches, garden benches, worship benches at Quaker meeting, park benches, dining hall benches at summer camp, bus stop benches, picnic benches, benches on a ferry boat, benches […]

Web Notes When We Are Scattered – December 10, 2020

by Martha Brunell

Connected While Apart A Story of Joy In the church, the color for the season of Advent is purple with the exception of the Third Sunday of the Season, the Sunday of Joy.  The church’s color for joy is a rose-colored pink like that above. Dear Mayfield, Pause for a moment with these words from […]

Web Notes When We Are Scattered – December 8, 2020

by Martha Brunell

Connected While Apart Catherine’s Creche  One of the season’s traditions that legend says goes back to Saint Francis of Assisi in the thirteenth century. Dear Mayfield, Over the course of the 1970’s my mother bought two creche sets at the Christmas Dove in Arlington, Vermont.  Different from one another, they were both made in Italy,  […]

Web Notes When We Are Scattered – December 3, 2020

by Martha Brunell

Connected While Apart What About Super-spreader? more random letters than words Dear Mayfield, For the first time ever, the folks who put out the Oxford English Dictionary have not chosen a word for the year.  There is a spiritual practice that I’ve participated in from time to time.  It involves being still and trying to […]

Web Notes When We Are Scattered – December 1, 2020

by Martha Brunell

Connected While Apart A Joyful Scent a holiday garland Dear Mayfield, Just after dark the night before Thanksgiving, I was making my way down the block and I was overcome by one of my most favorite smells.  Even through a mask securely held to my face, I could smell the sharp seasonal fragrance of balsam.  […]