stephanieraffelock
Our Breaking Heart
My heart won’t stop aching for the cops shot to death while they were trying to protect the protesters. I think about their families and...
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stephanieraffelock
- Jul 27, 2014
- 4 min
Is Age Just A Number?
The impervious feeling of youth is a delicious drunk of newness and firsts: first apartment, first true love, first heartbreak; the...
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stephanieraffelock
- Aug 19, 2013
- 8 min
Letting Go
Each year I plan a retreat for my community. This year I am bringing Dr. James Finley to Boulder, CO on September 20, 21 and 22, 2013 to...
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stephanieraffelock
- Jul 16, 2013
- 4 min
Barefoot Wild
At four my parents divorced and my father relocated to Glacier National Park, which presented a whole different pallet of nature than...
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stephanieraffelock
- Jul 12, 2013
- 3 min
We Are Voices In A Rising Chorus
It was soft at first. The words of a small Pakistani girl named Malala who said “educate girls,” and strung together sentences on a blog...
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stephanieraffelock
- May 20, 2013
- 2 min
With Wild Abandon
The chores of Saturday somehow soothe me. The act of putting things in their place marks the ending and the beginning of the cycle. I...
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stephanieraffelock
- May 12, 2013
- 5 min
Sufficiency, Sustainability and the Dreaded Common Good
My Closet (Photo credit: kian esquire) Sufficiency: What is enough? A small closet of clothes that can be worn to the office, and a few...
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stephanieraffelock
- Apr 30, 2013
- 2 min
I Write My Life
Aside from a few newspaper articles and a couple of magazine pieces (I wrote a piece for Quilter’s Magazine once) and few big blogs like...
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stephanieraffelock
- Apr 23, 2013
- 3 min
Emotional Balancing Act and Other Musings on What’s Positive and What’s Not
I am not certain if “making the world a better place” is something that we are taught or if it’s something that rises up from within us....
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stephanieraffelock
- Apr 18, 2013
- 4 min
Number 42
Jackie Robinson swinging a bat in Dodgers uniform, 1954. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Here is something that both of my parents gave to me:...
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stephanieraffelock
- Apr 12, 2013
- 4 min
Musings on Living Fully
Twenty-five years ago, tennis was my game. I loved the feeling of getting up early and hitting for an hour before work. I loved the cute...
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stephanieraffelock
- Apr 9, 2013
- 2 min
Dreams of a Restless Night
Enormous in the sky, a full moon cast a glittering ribbon of light upon the dark, black waters, a path that if followed leads you to the...
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stephanieraffelock
- Apr 6, 2013
- 3 min
Too Big To Function
Bank of America Tower (Photo credit: Wikipedia) How did we get so big? When I was a kid there were local shops where I bought school...
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stephanieraffelock
- Apr 2, 2013
- 4 min
Ladies of the Canyon
Cover of Ladies of the Canyon Topanga Canyon was a place filled with old homes, built in the 1930’s as resort homes for movie stars. A...
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stephanieraffelock
- Apr 1, 2013
- 3 min
Doing the Leibster
Some mornings, most mornings, I wake up with the committee blaring in my head. There is the usual to-do list, then a tremendous amount...
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stephanieraffelock
- Mar 31, 2013
- 2 min
Songs of Spring
A box was delivered on Saturday. I had ordered some small French pots for the front porch, anticipating the garden center at Home Depot...
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stephanieraffelock
- Mar 26, 2013
- 2 min
The Story You Are In
Sometimes it seems so clear; where I am and who I am and what story is unfolding. I had grandparents that slept in separate bedrooms;...
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stephanieraffelock
- Mar 24, 2013
- 3 min
Snog And Dog– Life Lessons From a Labrador Retriever
The word snog is a combination made-up word, for which there is not another word, and that’s why it had to be made up. Snog equals snow...
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stephanieraffelock
- Mar 23, 2013
- 2 min
A Smith Corona and Wild Weeds
Spiral journals came after that, more poetry and lyrics to songs, short stories about my parents divorce. I swooned over Anis Nin and May...
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stephanieraffelock
- Mar 18, 2013
- 1 min
Kitchen Prayers
A couple of days ago I wrote about “A Place At The Table,” a documentary film now in theaters and also on Amazon.com. This is something...
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