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Venom and Vanity: Dispatches of Intensive Care
Watch now (6 min) | The day after celebrating my birthday in the desert late last month, a rattlesnake bit me and everything went sideways. On…
Cathleen Falsani
Oct 8, 2022
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A Room Called Remember
On grieving the death of a spiritual giant—St. Freddy of Rupert—and the solace of a magical Redwood forest of someday-giants that shouldn't be but is.
Cathleen Falsani
Aug 17, 2022
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The Sunday Story I Never, Ever Wanted To Write: Farewell To Our Best Friend In The Whole World, Lin Brehmer
My friend Lin died today. Five words I hoped I’d never have to contemplate, nevermind type. Lin Brehmer, a musical icon in Chicago where he was the…
Cathleen Falsani
Jan 23
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Light Rafts for Flagging Spirits | Christmas 2020 Edition
An early Christmas present of music, film, images, and stories that hopefully will lighten your load and lift your spirits. May your holiday be merry…
Cathleen Falsani
Dec 25, 2020
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Airborne: Light Refracted
All week, I’ve been trying to recall where I’d seen light refracted by smoke the way it has been this week here in Southern California, 80 miles or more…
Cathleen Falsani
Sep 12, 2020
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Birthday Ambivalence and Other Super Powers
Learning to abide in the tension between what we wish for and what is. Cuz if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need...
Cathleen Falsani
Sep 23, 2022
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Sunday Stories: Memoirs, Light the Corners of My Mind...
On memoirs, memories, destiny, The Long Way Up/Down/Around, Surrender(ing), and how you'll never know if you don't ask
Cathleen Falsani
Nov 14, 2022
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Sunday Stories: Advent and Looking for Light
Today we enter my favorite (liturgical) season of the year, Advent, where we keep watch for what is coming—glimmers of hope even as the days and their…
Cathleen Falsani
Nov 28, 2022
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Glimmer: Glimpses of God
Each time the credits roll, I find myself thinking the same thing: Thank God, Foster woke up.If he didn’t shake himself out of the stupor of malaise 10…
Cathleen Falsani
Oct 15, 2020
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Sunday-on-Tuesday Stories: Gratitude and Glühwein
After a long weekend in the Pacific Northwest with friends aboard a boat called Gratitude, a few thoughts on how being grateful can change, well…
Cathleen Falsani
Nov 22, 2022
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Sunday Stories: Cultivating Kindness
To paraphrase the director and screenwriter Richard Curtis: If you look for it, I’ve got a sneaky feeling you’ll find that kindness actually is all…
Cathleen Falsani
Feb 5
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Sunday Stories: Don't Push the River
Watch now (2 min) | A quick hello from not-Laguna Beach and not-Ireland, but where the Universe led us, where the aspens are yellow and the wee maples…
Cathleen Falsani
Oct 17, 2022
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