Beware

September 14, 2012 Marie Noelle Duquette Observations One comment

Beware: single-spaced emails that begin with assurances that their purpose is to clear the air

Beware

shorts: with inseams the width of your hand; in colors of Skittles in anything larger than a size 2; with pockets you will be tempted to overfill

Beware

the shameless intrigue of Judge Judy

Beware

ellipses and exclamation points and their tendency to multiply

entering a hardware or drug store without a list

Beware

the tendency to think your memory of any given event is and remains completely accurate

transporting a full bag of candy on the passenger seat when you are the only one in the car

movies recommended by someone in the midst of an ugly break-up

Beware..coffee on close-out

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Joseph Wolf says:

September 14, 2012 at 9:56 am

beware lutheran preachers on sermon day 🙂

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Marie Noelle Duquette

I notice connections between people, events, movies, music, writings, the spoken word, that seem independent of one another. I write and speak about these connections because I have been created for this work and it has the potential to draw people together and transform rough places into plains of peace. I was a pastor in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America for twenty years. I remain a writer whose muse is active and insistent; a lover of new experiences; a dreamer of old. I am fueled by both music and silence; I appreciate truths that can only be conveyed in whispers, if in any language at all. I have more friends than I deserve, a big fat french family I adore, a partner whose love inspires my days. We share a cozy condo with our dog Nala, and cat, Picasso. My most palpable experience of God's presence took place in a chapel in Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio. In that place, where every great world religion was depicted by both name and symbol, a miracle took shape in 2005 that continues to inform my faith today. I believe the key to world peace is our willingness to understand one another and take the risks required to do that. My two sons are some of God's finest work; they are a blessing to me and to the world. I thank God for every single day of this wonder we know as life. And I thank you, for stopping by to take off your shoes and step into the shoes of those whose stories I am privileged to tell.