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Antidote to Disillusionment*

LisaPullenKent — Mon, 10 Aug 2020 02:39:23 +0000

*Reading given at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Columbia, online, August 9, 2020 “Always have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.” Maya Angelou In what do I place my trust? This profound, existential … Continue reading →

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And So This Is Christmas … Let The Grief In

LisaPullenKent — Thu, 31 Dec 2015 00:45:18 +0000

It’s late December, only days to Christmas. The kids are out of school and it’s dark already at 4:30 pm. All the lights burn in the kitchen where my husband is busy making sugar cookies with our girls. Flour dusts … Continue reading →

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Confessions Of A Reluctant Stage Mom

LisaPullenKent — Wed, 25 Feb 2015 20:18:57 +0000

“I’d like to go to brunch,” I say, loading my athletic shoes into my gym bag. A suitcase sits open on the floor. My husband carefully lays out his dry cleaning on the bed for yet another business trip. I … Continue reading →

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Becoming

LisaPullenKent — Wed, 12 Nov 2014 22:52:21 +0000

I love teenagers. I do. Everything about them: the awkward, the self-conscious, even the angry bits. I’m especially intrigued by the way they shed their childhood like a skin and emerge a newer, older version of themselves. I even kind … Continue reading →

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Never Miss A Chance To Dance

LisaPullenKent — Fri, 29 Aug 2014 21:02:11 +0000

Sydney’s YouTube debut (click link below): Dance, Sydney, Dance

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Through Grammy’s Eyes: A Birth Story

LisaPullenKent — Thu, 29 May 2014 22:13:42 +0000

Every birth has a story, ripe for the telling, though the tale varies with the perspective of the teller. The closest view belongs to the mother; it is her body, after all, that houses the new life, she who evicts … Continue reading →

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The Light Between Us

LisaPullenKent — Wed, 19 Mar 2014 22:42:25 +0000

One love, one blood, one life.You got to do what you should.One life with each other, Sisters and Brothers.One life, but we’re not the same. We get to carry each other, carry each other. One, U2 She doesn’t even know … Continue reading →

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Lisa’s 365

LisaPullenKent — Mon, 03 Feb 2014 10:09:08 +0000

I saw a blurb about this project on January 1, 2014. Gratitude is pretty trendy right now, but when fully experienced, it can’t be denied that miraculous transformations are possible. In early 2008 Hailey Bartholomew, a photographer and film-maker, a … Continue reading →

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Name Them One By One

LisaPullenKent — Thu, 28 Nov 2013 15:34:53 +0000

Giving thanks for abundance is greater than abundance itself. ~ Rumi I love Thanksgiving. It’s Christmas without the endless to-do list. Don’t get me wrong, I’m all about the tree-decorating, light-hanging, mall-shopping, card-sending, present-wrapping, stocking-stuffing frenzy, it’s just I’m … Continue reading →

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Square Peg

LisaPullenKent — Thu, 28 Nov 2013 15:34:31 +0000

Sydney tried out for the cheerleading squad. “Let’s get a little bit rowdy, R-O-W-D-Y!” In the cafetorium, I watched her audition as she executed the moves and called out the words just liked we’d practiced. She was a bit timid, … Continue reading →

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