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By Sarah E. Reynolds

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• Spiritual lessons from wildflowers

  By Sarah E. Reynolds - May 20
  I have a "soul friend" I see about once a month to talk over what's happening in my life and how my relationship with Mystery is going. When we ...
  

• My year with Mrs. Nickerson's fourth graders

  By Sarah E. Reynolds - Mar 11
  Back in September I had an email from a fourth grade class at Capt. Albert Stevens School in Belfast. The kids got right to the point: "We would ...
  

• An antidote for the isolation blues

  By Sarah E. Reynolds - Feb 11
  Midwinter is when cabin fever begins to set in. If it hadn't already set in months ago because of pandemic isolation. And yet even an overcast sky ...
  

• Nothing human is alien to me

  By Sarah E. Reynolds - Jan 07
  Last year around this time, Maureen and I were starting to get excited about the annual ATV ride up Mt. Washington. The event, begun in 2000, is a ...
  

• Taking the rush out of Christmas

  By Sarah E. Reynolds - Dec 10
  With all of the many things upset and altered by the global pandemic this year, one thing that I'm happy to miss is the Christmas rush. This year, ...
  

• Ruminating about winter, dreaming of spring

  By Sarah E. Reynolds - Nov 13
  The view out the window of my "office" — otherwise known as our guest bedroom — has changed, from spring green to the darker green of summer to ...
  

• My (virtual) visit with Mrs. Nickerson's class

  By Sarah E. Reynolds - Oct 08
  Belfast - When Nancy Nickerson, a fourth grade teacher at Capt. Albert Stevens School, contacted me recently on behalf of her class, I was excited. Her ...
  

• The glory of impermanence

  By Sarah E. Reynolds - Sep 11
  Rosie and I took a walk along the path around our property the other day. She was busy, trotting here and there, sniffing where she's probably ...
  

• Dog days

  By Sarah E. Reynolds - Jul 31
  They call this time of year the dog days of summer. Not because it's hot enough to make you dog-tired and so thirsty your tongue hangs out like a ...
  

• This is the hard part: staying the course

  By Sarah E. Reynolds - Jul 03
  One of the nice things about my job is that I don't actually have to be doing it ... to do it. Because I am always working ahead, by the time you ...
  

• What's in your Easter basket?

  By Sarah E. Reynolds - Apr 01
  I remember when Easter was all about two things: the candy and whoever was coming for Easter dinner, usually my mom's parents. Easter baskets made ...
  

• Vaccine daydreams and Pfizer fantasies

  By Sarah E. Reynolds - Feb 25
  Have you had your COVID-19 vaccination(s) yet? Me, neither. Who would have thought we'd spend the winter doldrums waiting eagerly for a jab with a ...
  

• Unity is not about agreement, but a common purpose

  By Sarah E. Reynolds - Jan 28
  I was among those who were thrilled with President Joe Biden's inaugural call to unity, and by his saying that he would fight as hard on behalf of ...
  

• If religion doesn't make us more human, what's it for?

  By Sarah E. Reynolds - Dec 24
  I was conversing with someone recently about how the pandemic restrictions on gatherings have affected church services. It has been very hard for ...
  

• Gratitude, the key to joy

  By Sarah E. Reynolds - Nov 26
  As 2020, the most maligned year since 2000, winds down, there is no lack of justifiable grumbles about what has been, to say the least, a tumultuou...
  

• Confessions of an old white liberal

  By Sarah E. Reynolds - Oct 30
  For the past few weeks, I've been taking a course on white privilege through my church. I signed up because the pastor and another woman at the ...
  

• The ride to Jackman

  By Sarah E. Reynolds - Sep 24
  We just got back from what is becoming an annual late summer or fall trip to Moosehead Lake for ATV riding and relaxing. We stayed in the same ...
  

• Country mice

  By Sarah E. Reynolds - Aug 28
  I'm a little phobic about certain kinds of bugs, especially the ones with the little, tiny bodies and the very long, creepy legs. Just thinking ...
  

• Saying goodbye to Brian

  By Sarah E. Reynolds - Jul 17
  Twenty years ago, I was newly in a relationship with someone I thought was pretty great — my spouse, Maureen. We took a trip one weekend with her ...
  

• Erasing 'them' from our hearts

  By Sarah E. Reynolds - Jun 12
  The Rev. Dr. Kate Winters, co-pastor of The First Church in Belfast, UCC, in an interview for this week's Republican Journal, referred to systemic ...