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On Easter joy, dancing, and Journey
I have a grandnephew named Carson who is nine years old and is astoundingly fun to be around. He is enthusiastic and energetic and...
Alaric Mark Lewis
Apr 15, 20202 min read
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On octaves and expansive love
Yesterday my niece Jen put a photograph on Facebook that I had taken more than ten years ago of my my sister Kathy and my grandniece...
Alaric Mark Lewis
Apr 15, 20203 min read
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On Easter Sunday, old wallets, and moving forward
I'm not entirely sure how, but after the death of my mother I ended up in possession of her wallet. It is of black leather, and filled...
Alaric Mark Lewis
Apr 12, 20205 min read
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On Holy Saturday
I love Holy Saturday. I always find Maundy Thursday and Good Friday so draining – I really get into them and it takes it out of me, I can...
Alaric Mark Lewis
Apr 11, 20202 min read
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On Good Friday and shoes
Some years ago I was waiting at a pub in Budapest to meet a friend of mine. I was, as I suppose I am wont to do when sitting alone in a...
Alaric Mark Lewis
Apr 10, 20204 min read
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On donuts and holes for Maundy Thursday
My sister Kathy was a fantastic cook. She was not a fancy cook – no pretentious things with French-sounding names could be found on her...
Alaric Mark Lewis
Apr 9, 20206 min read
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On memories and what's important
One of the enjoyable functions of Facebook is the memories section which shows what you posted on that day in past years. Since I...
Alaric Mark Lewis
Apr 8, 20202 min read
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On tulips
Nearly two years ago my friend Sandra came to visit from Rome. Flying through Amsterdam, she picked up some of the famous Dutch tulip...
Alaric Mark Lewis
Apr 7, 20202 min read
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On where God is
It seems that each time there is a tragic crisis in the world, the inevitable question arises: "Where is God?" It is, of course, a fair...
Alaric Mark Lewis
Apr 7, 20202 min read
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On Palm Sunday 2020
Some years ago, in preparation to lead a guided reading class, I read through hundreds of letters from both victims and survivors of the...
Alaric Mark Lewis
Apr 5, 20205 min read
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On delightful noise
My next door neighbours are a young family with three – or maybe four – small children. (I've never been able to get an accurate...
Alaric Mark Lewis
Apr 4, 20202 min read
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On good news
Last night I was interviewed by Phil Daley on BBC Radio Norfolk. I'd done radio and tv interviews before, but never live, so was a little...
Alaric Mark Lewis
Apr 3, 20202 min read
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On creativity and limericks
I'm always trying to find something positive in even the direst of situations (something that I know tends to annoy some folk) and one of...
Alaric Mark Lewis
Apr 1, 20202 min read
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On Cecil B. Demille and liberation
When I was six years old I saw Cecil B. DeMille's "The Ten Commandments" for the first time, when it aired on the ABC network in 1973,...
Alaric Mark Lewis
Mar 31, 20203 min read
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