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One Fine Day
Listen. It's been a tough year, a crazy year. An unthinkable year. The loss of life, unimaginable. So many shattered hopes and dreams....
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"I Found God, Became a Pastor And Then Lost My Faith. Here's What I Believe In Now" (Huffington Post, May 2021)
"What My Year of Solo Travel
at 64 Taught Me. "
(Daily Beast, October 2018)
"Cooper's Heart"
(Oprah Daily, July, 2022)
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rgummere
- May 5, 2021
- 1 min
A Heartfelt "How the Heck Are Ya?" and a Brief Post
Greetings, all you lovely people! I hope all is well with you and yours and everyone is enjoying the full beauty of spring! I am now...
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rgummere
- Mar 9, 2021
- 4 min
Lifted
A meditation from early last month. Hoping everyone is staying healthy. Spring is on the way! I’m standing at the edge of a floodplain in...
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rgummere
- Jan 2, 2021
- 4 min
New Year's Day, 2021
This morning the water in both birdbaths was frozen solid. As I sat with my morning coffee, the doves and the finches and the...
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rgummere
- Dec 21, 2020
- 2 min
After Darkness
Dear Ones, I write to you from the other side of something, but I’m not sure what. On the other side of the Winter Solstice, the moment...
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rgummere
- Jan 13, 2020
- 2 min
The Land of Enchantment
The word comes from the French, enchanter, meaning, "bewitch, charm, cast a spell," which is in turn from the Latin, incantare, "to...
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rgummere
- Dec 31, 2019
- 2 min
A New Journey Begins
It is late afternoon on this bright, chilly winter day, and I am ensconced in a small 1800's-era adobe casita in the heart of...
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rgummere
- Jul 22, 2019
- 4 min
The Thing With Feathers
Where has the summer gone?? Egad! Just yesterday, back in May, when the lilacs were blooming and a spring breeze blew in through my...
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rgummere
- May 17, 2019
- 5 min
That Eye We May Not Know
Well I left my happy home To see what I could find out I left my folk and friends With the aim to clear my mind out Cat Stevens’s...
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rgummere
- Apr 9, 2019
- 4 min
11 Little Goats in April
“There is an end to everything, to good things as well.” (So sayeth 14th century poet Geoffrey Chaucer in his epic poem, "Troilus and...
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rgummere
- Jan 20, 2019
- 5 min
Eighteen Days
It is Day Six of my eighteen-day residency at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. VCCA is in Amherst, Virginia, home of Sweet...
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rgummere
- Oct 25, 2018
- 6 min
Bear With Me
I want to take a moment and welcome new subscribers, many who've joined this “Chasing Light” caravan after reading my travel essay in The...
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rgummere
- Oct 24, 2017
- 5 min
Happy, Happy, Joy, Joy
It is early on a Sunday morning. I’m sitting in the empty lobby bar at the Renaissance Marriott Hotel in Charlotte, North Carolina, the...
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