flawed but authentic

(Sorry I managed to screw up posting two weeks in a row. But my computer BROKE yesterday. New computer today! Yay.)
My mom is over 80. She recently got a letter in the mail from someone she had gone to grammar school with.
The letter was from a woman, Jill, who had been in the same school [...]

 
A few weeks ago I promised to write a post every Thursday. I made it two weeks before I screwed up. I think that is mighty Flawed of me, but I won’t beat myself up about it too badly.
Back before the Internet, before blogging, before PostSecret, there was The Sun Magazine’s “Readers Write” Section. [...]

Every week on Friday, NPR has Storycorps on, and every week it makes me cry.
Storycorps is a project where a traveling recording booth goes around the country and people get a chance to interview their loved ones. The best stories are picked to be on the radio, and they are such touching and lovely stuff.
Today [...]

I paraphrased this poem by Mowlana Jalaluddin Rumi in my “about” section. I love the whole thing so much that I thought I would share it.
Come, come, whoever you are
Wonderer, worshipper, lover of leaving.
It doesn’t matter.
Ours is not a caravan of despair.
Come, even if you have broken your vow
a thousand times
Come, yet again, come, [...]

I love forgiveness stories. I collect them.
A Course in Miracles says “The holiest spot on earth is where an ancient hatred has become a present love.”
I like The Forgiveness Project website, because it has great stories and because it doesn’t bother to clean them up and make them all right. Sometimes people screw up again. [...]