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Welcome To 2019. Begin At The End.

Welcome to 2019. Begin at the end.

  • January 8, 2019
  • Beryl Schewe
  • Balance and Integration, Gratitude, Remembering, Saying Goodbye, Transformation

Happy New Year. 2019 feels so fresh, so full of possibility. Like new spiral notebooks on the first day of school—clean and open to creativity. You’d think with all our practice at New Year’s self-improvement, we’d be practically perfect by…

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Connecting The Primes

Connecting the primes

  • November 13, 2017
  • Beryl Schewe
  • Remembering

One of my last sweet memories of my dad is of him poking out of my van’s skylight with his camera. He was working on a painting of a salt marsh, and he wanted me to drive him out to…

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Rebuilding After Loss In Syria

Rebuilding after loss in Syria

  • November 7, 2017
  • Beryl Schewe
  • Helping Others, Remembering

"Memory is the sense of loss, and loss pulls us after it. God Himself was pulled after us into the vortex we made when we fell, or so the story goes. And while He was on earth He mended families.…

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Celebrating A Woman Of Valor

Celebrating a Woman of Valor

  • October 18, 2016
  • Steve Schewe
  • Gratitude, Remembering, Saying Goodbye

My friend would have turned 90 last Saturday, but instead of having her birthday party, we celebrated her life with a memorial service.  I believe we are all connected, but my friend (She didn’t want her name on the Internet)…

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Singing In The Rain

Singing in the Rain

  • August 23, 2016
  • Beryl Schewe
  • Balance and Integration, Gratitude, Remembering

Thirty-six years ago, I was married on a sunny August afternoon.  We listened that day to what I think of as the Happiness Gospel.  Jesus says: Do not worry about your life, what you will eat; or about your body,…

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Never Forget

Never Forget

  • May 16, 2016
  • Steve Schewe
  • Community Support, Remembering, Resilience, sacred ground

“Save Us from the Time of Trial.”  The Lord’s Prayer Jason Gay has a fine article in the Wall Street Journal about a skyscraper climb of One World Trade Center.  Nearly 1,000 friends and family of the first responders who died…

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At Home With The Friendly Beasts

At Home with the Friendly Beasts

  • December 22, 2015
  • Beryl Schewe
  • Holidays, Remembering

For me, Christmas and nostalgia walk hand in hand. Every ornament has its story; every decoration a memory. Our tree always displays a Northwestern University ornament—although no one in the family went there.  It was the gift of a young…

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