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    A Tale of Embarrassment
    Dana Butler
    • Feb 22, 2021
    • 2 min

    A Tale of Embarrassment

    From February 1, 2021 So the kids and I are driving home today and it's *that* time of day. 4:45-ish in the afternoon. All coping skills...
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    At Home Within Yourself
    Dana Butler
    • Feb 22, 2021
    • 1 min

    At Home Within Yourself

    From January 30, 2021 Hey, my sweet friends. In the vein of willingly inhabiting the space within our limits (see my post from yesterday...
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    A Friday Intro: (Limits and Letting Folks Down)
    Dana Butler
    • Feb 22, 2021
    • 2 min

    A Friday Intro: (Limits and Letting Folks Down)

    From January 29, 2021 Hi loves. An excited, warm WELCOME to you lovely new faces ‘round here. I like you so much already.😊 It is...
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    A Long Way Off
    Dana Butler
    • Feb 22, 2021
    • 1 min

    A Long Way Off

    (a poem-prayer, to be found where the father is) A father's heart embraces his son still mid-run, still a long way off. A father's heart...
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    A Story About Gift-Giving
    Dana Butler
    • Feb 22, 2021
    • 1 min

    A Story About Gift-Giving

    From January 27, 2021 A few days ago, I somehow got into a conversation with my 10-year-old son (who has developmental disabilities but...
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    Mindful
    Dana Butler
    • Feb 22, 2021
    • 1 min

    Mindful

    --Mary Oliver From January 26, 2021 Every day I see or I hear something that more or less kills me with delight, that leaves me like a...
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    An Old House Story
    Dana Butler
    • Feb 22, 2021
    • 1 min

    An Old House Story

    From January 25, 2021 So, the story on this ol' house. (Well, *my* story on it, anyway.) I drive by it two or three times a week on the...
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    Haven
    Dana Butler
    • Feb 22, 2021
    • 1 min

    Haven

    (A poem-prayer for your weekend) From January 23, 2021 God, May my heart persevere to hold space for the hurting. May my eyes be warm...
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    A Friday Intro
    Dana Butler
    • Feb 22, 2021
    • 2 min

    A Friday Intro

    From January 22, 2021 Hi friends! Lots of new faces here (👋🏼) so thought I’d Friday-introduce myself today — which, if I’m honest, is...
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    The Most Afraid I've Been
    Dana Butler
    • Feb 22, 2021
    • 1 min

    The Most Afraid I've Been

    From January 19, 2021 This was the most genuinely afraid I have ever been while photographing an abandoned property. Obviously I’m still...
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    When You Find You’re Afraid to Hope
    Dana Butler
    • Feb 22, 2021
    • 1 min

    When You Find You’re Afraid to Hope

    When life has dealt one brutal blow after the next, after still the next, and circumstances might finally be looking up a bit but you’re...
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    Unabashed Fire and Frolic
    Dana Butler
    • Feb 22, 2021
    • 1 min

    Unabashed Fire and Frolic

    “Until further notice, celebrate everything.” . I have no idea who first said that, but it’s when I forget to consciously live that way...
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    10 Things that Keep my Heart Hopeful
    Dana Butler
    • Feb 22, 2021
    • 2 min

    10 Things that Keep my Heart Hopeful

    From January 16, 2021 Hi, my friends. Happy glorious winter Saturday. It can be glorious regardless of almost everything, ya know....
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    Frost
    Dana Butler
    • Feb 22, 2021
    • 1 min

    Frost

    From January 14, 2021 We traipse bleary-eyed out to the car, parked out front -rather than garaged- to give the workmen uninterrupted...
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    Reverence
    Dana Butler
    • Feb 22, 2021
    • 1 min

    Reverence

    From January 14, 2021 With respect And reverence That the unknown Between us Might flower Into discovery And lead us Beyond The familiar...
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    When the Critics Are Your Dearest Friends
    Dana Butler
    • Feb 21, 2021
    • 3 min

    When the Critics Are Your Dearest Friends

    From January 1, 2021 Stan reminded me this morning that at the end of Daring Greatly, Brene Brown yells at her notes, “If the critics’...
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    ONE WORD 2021
    Dana Butler
    • Feb 21, 2021
    • 2 min

    ONE WORD 2021

    December 30, 2020 One year ago found me feeling excruciatingly lost. The pieces of me shattered and scattered. My identity still...
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    Walking Ourselves Through to Christ
    Dana Butler
    • Feb 21, 2021
    • 2 min

    Walking Ourselves Through to Christ

    From December 26, 2020 I keep having these conversations lately with one of my kids. They go like this: . Me: “No emotion is bad. Anger,...
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    A Friday Intro
    Dana Butler
    • Feb 21, 2021
    • 2 min

    A Friday Intro

    Hey y'all. It's me. I haven't done one of these in a while, and there are some new folks 'round here (Hiii! I'm so very grateful for your...
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    Real and alive. And held.
    Dana Butler
    • Feb 21, 2021
    • 1 min

    Real and alive. And held.

    From December 15, 2020 “Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack, a crack in everything That's...
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