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    Celebrate! It's Summer Solstice
    vilmablenman
    • Jun 21
    • 2 min

    Celebrate! It's Summer Solstice

    Celebrate it! Today, June 21st marks the summer solstice in our northern half of the hemisphere. It’s the longest day and night of light,...
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    Decisions, Decisions
    vilmablenman
    • May 24
    • 3 min

    Decisions, Decisions

    We make them daily—monumental or inconsequential, from the moment we awake. Get up now or five minutes from now? Do I have a quick bowl...
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    April--Arrival and Departure
    vilmablenman
    • Apr 18
    • 2 min

    April--Arrival and Departure

    In his ground-breaking post-war poem, “The Waste Land,” T. S. Eliot argues: April is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead...
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    Lent--Loaned Time
    vilmablenman
    • Mar 16
    • 2 min

    Lent--Loaned Time

    Yes, it’s the simple past tense of “lend” but when capitalized, the word, “Lent” denotes a liturgical season—40 days preceding Easter....
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    My Black Church & Black Identity
    vilmablenman
    • Feb 8
    • 3 min

    My Black Church & Black Identity

    As another Black History Month rolls in and rolls on, I’m thinking of the forces that shaped my sense of Black identity, thinking of the...
    33 views1 comment
     Go for Goals!
    vilmablenman
    • Jan 4
    • 3 min

    Go for Goals!

    It’s Day 4 of 2022. How are you doing so far with your goals and resolutions? I’m asking you this not because I’m a goal-setting guru or...
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    Back To School in Covid Times?
    vilmablenman
    • Aug 24, 2020
    • 2 min

    Back To School in Covid Times?

    School will be a strange new world this September with Covid-19 still in the air.
    35 views1 comment
    Summer Reset for Mental Health
    vilmablenman
    • Jul 19, 2020
    • 2 min

    Summer Reset for Mental Health

    With the heat wave and patios opening, you’d think we are ready to wave goodbye to the pandemic and the anti-racist revolution.
    24 views1 comment
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