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Kathy Gallagher
May 16, 20214 min read
Looking for home.
I'm feeling like I must either lose myself in the current of culture, or fight like a banshee to make the culture adapt to me. Fit or...
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Kathy Gallagher
Apr 25, 20214 min read
Starting over.
What if loss and endings are the only way to find a new beginning? “The road rolls on like a welcome mat….” A confident, nasally voice...
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Kathy Gallagher
Mar 13, 20216 min read
Purr anyway.
I’m going to have to print that on a T-shirt in honor of my sensei, the master who has been teaching me a thing or two about life for the...
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Kathy Gallagher
Jan 16, 20217 min read
The snowball effect.
Three steps toward reversing the snowball effect of peripheral pain. The pain about pain is that it tends to gather more pain. I began...
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Kathy Gallagher
Dec 31, 20204 min read
Plot twist.
Woven through the brokenness and unexpected nature of each personal struggle in 2020, I still see, every time, the grace threads, God’s...
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Kathy Gallagher
Dec 1, 20205 min read
Silent morning, holy morning.
The coffee steams beside me, the silence is mine, the words flow. I have always loved rising before the rest of the world. By “world” I...
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Kathy Gallagher
Sep 28, 20206 min read
Grief and wonder.
A week ago Jim and Molly were hunting with Gramps in Wyoming. This morning my father-in-law, George Gallagher, moved his residence to...
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Kathy Gallagher
Sep 17, 20201 min read
Breathing again.
In a year already branded with uncertainty, wildfire is one more reminder that absolutely nothing is really within my control. Last night...
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Kathy Gallagher
Aug 1, 20205 min read
Be kind to your Covid self.
Ten tiny steps for creeping out of Covid malaise. July 30th felt a bit like February 2nd, only this time I was the groundhog coming out...
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Kathy Gallagher
Jun 30, 202013 min read
Three hours of summer.
“How odd?” I ask, grabbing a pencil to jot notes. I’m a little worried about my own memory. “Well, he’s wearing Depends on his feet.” I...
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Kathy Gallagher
Jun 25, 20202 min read
OWA TAGU SIAM
A little biblical foolishness. I take my Bible seriously. God is in heaven and I am on earth, so I’d better pay attention to the view...
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Kathy Gallagher
Jun 9, 20204 min read
Couch church vs. Church church.
I’m missing the outside encouragement, but I’m relishing what I get in exchange--a louder, longer, more authentic dialogue with Jesus. A...
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Kathy Gallagher
Jan 29, 20202 min read
Slip, bang!
We are learning to cry easily, blow noses loudly, to lean on past memories and new realities, to sing hymns often, and count blessings...
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Kathy Gallagher
May 10, 20192 min read
Sixty.
When shock and reality collide. I have turned Sixty! “Turned.” Makes one think of milk that has gone past its expiration date and soured....
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