solitude: Red Letter Challenge

Is there something wrong with me? I read “solitude” and my first thought is Superman. Specifically, I think about Superman’s base of operations, his retreat…The Fortress of Solitude. I’ve written about Superman before and even this idea of being alone and isolated. (you can check out my other Superman thoughts here and here and here) […]

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Alone [1Word5Voices]

There are a few variations, but many will remember the nursery rhyme, The Farmer in the Dell (here’s one way it has been sung). For the uninitiated, the song is little more than a string of relationships. The Farmer takes a wife, who takes a child, who takes a nurse, who takes a cow, who […]

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Alone (Lent #38)

I pull into the parking lot today and am surprised to find my name tag getting snowed on.  I must have dropped it as I left yesterday and there it sat, all night, in the cold (and now the snow), alone. The title I have scrawled on this name tag is “Super Hero”.  A bit […]

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