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  I have a secret that surfaces around the holidays.  I genuinely don't want anything material for Christmas.  I become uncomfortable when people ask me what I want to get, and  I've never really made any sort of gift wishlists.  I think that this offends people or that people think I'm only trying to be difficult and spoil their gift buying, but I don't want anything that you can buy in a store.  It bothers me when retailers gear up for the holiday buying frenzy in August.  It bothers me when people boast that they've gotten all their holiday shopping fin  Read more >

Today's passage from the Tao Te Ching is eerily appropriate for the course of events in my life.  On Thursday, a good friend and coworker of mine died in childbirth.  At first I was shocked because I could scarcely believe that, given modern technology and medicine, women actually died anymore while delivering their children.  After giving it much thought and contemplation (as well as hiking until my feet felt like they were going to fall off), I came to realize that my friend sacrificed her life giving the world the most perfect gift, a new life.  She loved this baby wi  Read more >