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- 61 Psaltery & Lyre: Kay Porter, “Mother Mold”
- Ride to Church in Hyderabad, India
- 60 Psaltery & Lyre: Jeremy Windham, “Goliath in Love”
- Flooding the Book of Mormon with the Book of Mormon
- Battle Hymn of My Mormon Mother
- A Celebration of Motherhood
- Motherhood Is Not the Essense of my Personhood
- 3 Little Gurus
- 59 Psaltery & Lyre: James A. Clark, “Elegy for a Stranger”
- [Mormon] Mother’s Prayer for Its Child
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Woody Allen: ‘Crimes and Misdemeanors’
It would be difficult to overestimate how important the movies of Woody Allen have been in my life. That makes it all sound a bit serious… the importance and pleasure... -
Memories
A grateful resident presented me with a chocolate turkey, wrapped in beautiful multicolored foil. Then she looked around her room, reached over to her bedside table, and... -
Let Me Stand Next to Your Fire
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Let My People Go
My little Stuart has a bleeding heart. He is unusually quick, I think, to identify a person or an action as being unfair or unkind and to want to right... -
Seminal Works — Kind of Blue
Sometimes hype is justified, Kind of Blue earns its reputation with every listen. -
Skipping Christmas
Christmas is a pretty big deal at my house. There’s nary a tradition I’ve heard that I don’t try to incorporate somewhere. I eat it up. But this year, we’re... -
Real Intimacy
Today, I indulged. I let my mind wander to one of my favorite fantasies. Do you want to join me? Be warned, it’s pretty damn sexy. Imagine – every time... -
Golden Slumbers
Golden slumbers kiss your eyes, Smiles awake you when you rise; Sleep, pretty wantons, do not cry, And I will sing a lullaby, Rock them, rock them, lullaby. Care is... -
Fahrenheit 451
Truffaut’s famous adaptation of the Ray Bradbury novel Fahrenheit 451 begins with a strange and stern voice-over against coloured close-ups of television aerials, in the place of credits. This innovative... -
A Christmas Carol
As Marley disappears in a ghostly manner out the window, Scrooge looks out the window as he goes to close it….. -
Celestial Attachment and Parenting
Today’s post is written by ‘Saint Maybe’, a fabulous writer. Enjoy! Buddhism teaches that the origin of suffering is attachment. That was part of the epiphany of the bodhi tree.... -
Banned
Some conservative religious communities build bonfires or try to get books banned from public libraries, Mormons censor themselves. -
Ms. Goodie Two-Shoes
You better watch out . . . He’s making a list, checking it twice, gonna find out Who’s naughty and nice. He knows if you’ve been bad or good, So... -
I Don’t Want to Live on the Moon
Or under the sea. Or the jungle… at least, not permanently. -
I Want
Happiness comes from within. It may be one of the most overused spiritual statements, and most of us would agree with it – despite evidence to the contrary. Seriously, what... -
Penelope’s List
Is the desire to be happy a human universal? Or is it just another one of those preferences that arise from the murky depths of some personalities? On its face... -
The Visitor
I’m not a movie critic, but I do see lots of movies. I’m not picky. I’ll see a “chick flick” that’s full of clichés and predictable plots. I don’t need... -
Lunch 5- Out of the Comfort Zone
We (and our children) have had to learn to be gracious guests at both cockroach infested decrepit apartments and mansions where we are served by The Help. -
Holiday Road Trip Hell
We’ve had a few discussions here at Doves & Serpents about fear. Mel wrote about the dangers of playing it safe, Matt wrote about the simultaneous worship and fear of... -
Fermentation
Whilst I have lived in England I have been struck by the cross pollination of many musical genres under the guise of indie. What is indie? It’s exactly what it... -
Mormon Fakebook Update: 20
If only we could work out what Elder Uchtdorf was thinking about… aha! -
A Cast, a Quilt and an Angel
For three-year-old Wally, the cast had been a nuisance standing between him and a pirate ship in the bathtub, an everyday accessory of his favorite color, and a hindrance to... -
Get Real
Real. It’s one of my favorite four letter words. I can’t think of any better criteria for a friend — just be real. Satya is the Sanskrit word for truthfulness.... -
Lime Trees
A ‘High Dynamic Range’ vision of Limes, grass and sky. -
A Christmas Tale
Some films leave you with a feeling that you have experienced something solid and illuminating that will stay with you. A Christmas Tale (released in 2008), with its... -
Giving Thanks
‘The fragrance always remains in the hand that gives the rose.’ -Mahatma Ghandi -
Home for the Holidays
“Nobody means what they say on Thanksgiving, Mom. That’s what the holiday is all about. Torture.” — Claudia I know I’m not supposed to talk about movies on Knit Together.... -
File Sharing
My iTunes library is an autobiography of all my relationships. There is the musical theater from my parents, the Tori Amos and Ani DiFranco from one of my oldest... -
Taking Up My Mat
I thought about God asking me the same question one day and decided I don’t want to be left offering excuses about why I didn’t follow up on my dreams... -
Crazy all of the time
A friend of mine recently said, “None of us gets the luxury of being independent of our context.” As much as I try not to be a victim to my... -
Device
Birthdays are a natural time to put one’s current moment into the perspective of history. This past week I’m realizing just how much history has slipped by in so little time. I... -
Revolutionary Road
What does it mean to be a woman? -
What if God Were One of Us?
We try to equalize as much as possible, because I know that’s how God sees us. There is not a difference in God’s eyes. And you’d be surprised... -
Mormon Fakebook Update: 19
Tommy’s always been a one for cheerful status updates. -
“Aren’t you afraid you’re going to turn him gay?”
“Aren’t you afraid you’re going to turn him gay?” I’ve been asked this question many times. The first few times, I was speechless (which pretty much never happens to me).... -
Seminal Works — Gilead
This meditative novel is an examination of faith, humanity and the unbearable beauty of everyday life; it is impossible to overstate the spare, lyrical beauty of Robinson’s prose or the... -
Mormon Fakebook Update: 18
Elijah Abel sees something unexpected on Brigham’s ‘feed’… -
Not Dead Yet
I’ve come to believe I must be half Mormon-girl, half rebel. I’m a sucker for a theme, a central idea to focus my efforts, yet the traditional “charity never faileth”... -
The Places That Scare You
“Confess your hidden faults. Approach what you find repulsive. Help those you think you cannot help. Anything you are attached to, let it go. Go to the places that scare... -
Blessed Eve, Mother of All Living
The opposite of life is not death, rather never knowing. Yet knowledge has been called a forbidden fruit and a poison … the root of all evil … a bitter... -
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
We all occasionally construct protective layers around our emotions, convinced that forgetting will negate the trouble of pain, the complications of connecting. But is that how we want to live? -
Mormon Fakebook Update: 17
It’s an apostle. It’s a vegetable. It’s a heavenly combination! -
To Hear and Be Heard
Departing from the standard brief personal essay, today I’d like to introduce you all to my friend Allison Mitchell, founder and Executive Director of Lazarus Ministries in Atlanta, Georgia. On... -
Care to join me for guitar practice, anyone?
But when you have three kids who all have to be in three different places at the same time, the babysitter plus me still doesn’t cut it. I often... -
Being Awesome
You cannot try to be awesome, you must be awesome….that is the law of awesome -
Mormon Fakebook Update: 16
William Law is ‘linking’ to the Expositor. -
Enough is enough
Wherefore do ye spend money for [that which is] not bread? and your labour for [that which] satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye [that which is] good,... -
Top 10 Principles of Happiness That I was Never taught at Church
1. Don’t believe everything you think. Putting aside all past conditioning – if that’s even possible — ask yourself, “Who am I?” At the core of your human experience, who... -
A Man of Letters
Everything I have learned about God is written in a book. In fact, it’s difficult to imagine how my worldview might differ had certain ideas not been memorialized, glorified, and... -
Mormon Fakebook Update: 15
Leisure time for the Prez.
