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Q-Card Volume 207

Week Ending Friday February 19, 2021 {quotes} You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending. C.S. Lewis Some events are in the area of the soul where words cannot penetrate. Neal … [Read more...]

Q-Card: Volume 202

Week Ending Friday January 15, 2021 {quotes} Worrying does not take away tomorrow’s troubles. It takes away today’s peace. Randy Armstrong If you're going through hell, keep going. Winston Churchill Wake up, live your life, and sing the … [Read more...]

Story: Love to Give Away

Sherry is a queer girl. Not queer in the way the word is used today - reflecting one’s sexual preference. She isn’t queer in the 1960’s schoolyard description of the unpopular kid. Sherry is queer because she is odd. Unconventional. Not like the … [Read more...]

Q-Card Volume 201

Week Ending Friday January 8, 2021 {quotes} Until we can receive with an open heart, we are never really giving with an open heart. Bren'e Brown The world is so full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings. Robert … [Read more...]

Q-Card Volume 198

Week Ending Friday December 18, 2020 {quotes} It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends. J.K. Rowling If you ever get the chance to treat them the way they treated you, I hope you … [Read more...]

Blog: Thanks for the Sabbath

By Susan Diamond There's a custom in the Diamond house, and it happens every Friday night. It's something we take very seriously. You may know it as something we Jews are very good at - eating. Shabbat (Sabbath) dinner started thirty years ago … [Read more...]

Q-Card Volume 197

Week Ending Friday December 11, 2020 {quotes} If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, "Thank You," that would be enough. Meister Eckhart To let go does not mean to get rid of. To let go means to let be. When we let be with … [Read more...]

Story: The Satisfying Secret of the Busse Family

Whenever we walked by a Busse, my mother would give a pitying smile, wait until the family member was out of earshot, and say, “That poor family. Oh, what they have been through.” And then she would sigh. Everyone in our small town knew … [Read more...]

Q-Card Volume 195

Week Ending Friday November 27, 2020 {quotes} Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues but the parent of all others. Marcus Tullius Cicero The sun sinks to rise again. William Peter Blatty Peace can become a lens through which you see … [Read more...]

Story: Mi Corazoncita

My Mami was never my hero. And I wasn’t hers either. As long as I can remember, we had a relationship where we merely tolerated each other. January 1, 2020 A new year. I’m thirty years old, and I still live in my childhood bedroom, under Mami’s … [Read more...]