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1 month ago | 
thebrunswicknews.com | Debra-Lynn B. Hook
By Debra-Lynn B. Hook, Tribune News Service I attend a spirituality group for an hour every week that holds loving kindness as its anchor. During the hour, we read the poetry of such luminaries as Mary Oliver and John O'Donohue. We meditate, and we talk about the ways we find to extend loving kindness to ourselves and others.
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1 month ago | 
miamiherald.com | Debra-Lynn B. Hook
I attend a spirituality group for an hour every week that holds loving kindness as its anchor. During the hour, we read the poetry of such luminaries as Mary Oliver and John O'Donohue. We meditate, and we talk about the ways we find to extend loving kindness to ourselves and others. The dozen or so gentle-spirited members of this group also talk about the difficulties of staying with love these days when so much of what we are seeing resonates hate.
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2 months ago | 
keenesentinel.com | Debra-Lynn B. Hook
I surveyed my friends recently to find out what they’re doing to stay sane. “Screaming into a paper bag,” said a friend who lives near Capitol Hill in Washington. “Staying away from the news,” said another friend. “Who said I’m sane?” said another. As a massive reassembling of the U.S. government by President Donald Trump knocks the planet off-kilter, many of us are challenged to find solid footing.
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2 months ago | 
thebrunswicknews.com | Debra-Lynn B. Hook
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2 months ago | 
star-telegram.com | Debra-Lynn B. Hook
I surveyed my friends recently to find out what they're doing to stay sane. "Screaming into a paper bag," said a friend who lives near Capitol Hill in Washington. "Staying away from the news," said another friend. "Who said I'm sane?" said another. As a massive reassembling of the U.S. government by President Donald Trump knocks the planet off-kilter, many of us are challenged to find solid footing.
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2 months ago | 
miamiherald.com | Debra-Lynn B. Hook
I surveyed my friends recently to find out what they're doing to stay sane. "Screaming into a paper bag," said a friend who lives near Capitol Hill in Washington. "Staying away from the news," said another friend. "Who said I'm sane?" said another. As a massive reassembling of the U.S. government by President Donald Trump knocks the planet off-kilter, many of us are challenged to find solid footing.
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Jan 24, 2025 | 
thebrunswicknews.com | Debra-Lynn B. Hook
The giddy texts and videos came rolling in from my bundled-up sister in New Orleans on a historic day in the Big Easy. "It's snowing, it's snowing, it's snowing," she whispered, her eyes wide in disbelief, as she stood on her front porch in a rarely worn winter hat and scarf.
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Jan 24, 2025 | 
star-telegram.com | Debra-Lynn B. Hook
The giddy texts and videos came rolling in from my bundled-up sister in New Orleans on a historic day in the Big Easy. "It's snowing, it's snowing, it's snowing," she whispered, her eyes wide in disbelief, as she stood on her front porch in a rarely worn winter hat and scarf. In fact, it snowed on Tuesday in record amounts across the South, including subtropical New Orleans, typically 62 degrees in January.
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Oct 8, 2024 | 
star-telegram.com | Debra-Lynn B. Hook
Like so many people, I have a deep and personal connection to Asheville, North Carolina, a once-sleepy mountain town grown into an artists' enclave and vacation haven for people weary of bright lights and big cities. I grew up 63 miles south of the town of 95,000 in the also once-sleepy berg of Greenville, South Carolina, in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, which in recent decades, began developing into its own grown-up artsy city and destination.
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Oct 8, 2024 | 
thebrunswicknews.com | Debra-Lynn B. Hook
Like so many people, I have a deep and personal connection to Asheville, North Carolina, a once-sleepy mountain town grown into an artists' enclave and vacation haven for people weary of bright lights and big cities. I grew up 63 miles south of the town of 95,000 in the also once-sleepy berg of Greenville, South Carolina, in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, which in recent decades, began developing into its own grown-up artsy city and destination.
