Monthly Archives: February 2022

The Fine Line Between Clever and Awkward

Posted on February 18, 2022 by mitchteemley

Clever, awkward, or just plain odd? It’s all in the eye of the beholder (or be-hearer, or be-smeller, or be-whatever-er). You decide. Click on any image to enlarge it, read caption, or begin slide show.

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Beyond Valentine’s Day

Posted on February 17, 2022 by mitchteemley

Soulmate (noun): Someone you’re “made for” and don’t have to work at loving. Someone you choose to continue loving every day. Love is a choice we keep on making.

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The Killing Fields

Posted on February 16, 2022 by mitchteemley

My Featured Blogger this week is John Wreford, a professional photographer based in Istanbul, Turkey. John’s Middle East-focused photo journals are sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes unexpectedly beautiful, always engaging. Visit his site and see the world from John’s unique and compassionate … Continue reading →

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An Unbearable Nakedness

Posted on February 15, 2022 by mitchteemley

From the album The Nightmare of Being by At the Gates My Real Memoir I had a recurring nightmare, beginning around age eleven. It evoked a landscape of dark red “hills” made of organs inside a diseased body. As I wandered … Continue reading →

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My Super Bowl Ad!

Posted on February 14, 2022 by mitchteemley

(See video below) Super Bowl is the most widely viewed event in America. For my non-U.S. friends, it centers on a game played with a miniature zeppelin that only Americans (and Canadians, eh) call a football (Aussie’s have their own … Continue reading →

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Seek and You Shall Find

Posted on February 13, 2022 by mitchteemley

Seek God’s help and you may receive what you desire. Seek God himself and you will receive all that you desire. For to desire God is to have all that is worth desiring. †

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Rescue Zack, or Never Come Back!

Posted on February 12, 2022 by mitchteemley

Artwork by Dusan Trajkovic The Wishing Map is a full-length fantasy that is being posted episodically at this site. To read the previous episode, click here. To read the entire novel, begin here. “Holy…!” Gina Dore’s butt-boy of a brother … Continue reading →

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There’s Something About Trees

Posted on February 11, 2022 by mitchteemley

They’re the oldest and largest living things on earth. They make and cleanse most of the air that we breathe — we literally couldn’t survive without them. Perhaps it’s because I’m currently reading Richard Powers’ marvelous tree-centric novel The Overstory, … Continue reading →

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“Coincidence? I Think Not!”

Posted on February 10, 2022 by mitchteemley

“Coincidence? I think not!” is a cliché used to tease people deemed naïve, those who think every slight similarity is fraught with cosmic meaning. And yet there are those times when something is so coincidental, we sense it really must … Continue reading →

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Self-Care as Prayer

Posted on February 9, 2022 by mitchteemley

Photo by Jackson David My Featured Blogger this week is Sue (aka SueBE) of praypower4today, a site that Midwesterner Sue shares with West Coaster Lori and Northeasterner Ruth. Between them, they cover a lot of ground, not only geographically, but … Continue reading →

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