phila, Author at Survivors' Haven

I need the warm curl of fingers around a pen the brush of hand across paper scratch of a ...

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There are powerful books…and then there are books that grasp me by the spiritual lapels and shake me to the bones. Return to ...

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This year, as I watch the headlines – wildfire here, floods there, a typhoon, hailstorms, drought, vanished sea ice in ...

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After a sleepless night and an overwhelmed, distracted day, I kept coming back to the question – why bother? Why ...

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These questions have been haunting me for the past few days…with the sort of resonance that tells me they are ...

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Last night was a rough one. One of the roughest in a while. Fears for the country and the planet…personal ...

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I’ve been circling around this topic for months?…years?….decades?…and finally I think it’s time to square my shoulders and confront it, crazy ...

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One of my favorite bumper stickers reads: Don’t Believe Everything You Think. It’s one of my rules for living…most of the ...

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Over the past few days, I’ve been contemplating a memory from a very dark time, when I was nevertheless being ...

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She’s still in there – the child. The one who believed – really believed – that magic could happen and ...

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