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Chasing Saints
While visiting Julio, (my friend of more decades than I care to admit) at his house in Florida some dozen years ago, I found in the guest bedroom—a room that vaguely resemble a monk’s cell if you don’t...
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Back to Brazil & the Casa Dom Inacio
I’m sitting in the Delta lounge waiting for my direct flight to Brasilia—a direct flight being a miracle in and of itself, as it means I don’t need to deal with changing planes in Sao Paolo airport, or...
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Seeing the Spiritual Energy of Prayer and Holy Communion
One night on our recent Brazil trip with guides Bob Dinga and Diana Rose, Rev. Paul Funfsinn held a communion service in his large room. 27 people from our group crammed into his room, with a few in...
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Rosh Hashonah Reflections
Holidays live in the past as much as in the present. Major holidays inevitably serve as triggers of memories: the memories of childhood celebrations, the memories of phases and people in adulthood that...
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Namaste: Beholding & Projecting the Divine
On my first visit to India for a world diversity conference in 1997, I made friends with Marisa, an Indian woman who lived in Mumbai. Though she was Catholic, she was quite comfortable in the Hindu...
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Weather You Like it or Not
In the first 24 years since I left New York City for the suburbs, there was only one time when we lost power for days. It was when my (then) husband and I had just moved to Armonk, NY and Hurricane...
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Missing Carla
As the weeks go by, the memory of how she looked at the end is fading. The steroids had rendered her an almost comic cross between Buddha and Uncle Fester. She’d long since lost her hair, and her...
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Travels with Angel
The folks who make the Voyage-Air folding guitar have an Owner’s Club on their website and I was asked to contribute my experiences. That led to my written reflections on the place that each guitar...
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Website revisions underway!
Looking for me at http://www.nettiespiwack.com ? I’m in the process of domain name transfer from one host to another, and the website will be down for a few days. See you there in July! Meanwhile,...
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Tired, But Happy
It’s an unusually cold night here in Abadiania, Brazil! For the only time in my five visits since 2004, the town is almost empty. It’s Saturday; the day that many people end their two-week stay here at...
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