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I Have a Confession to Make
I’ve started praying again. My prayers are not the desperate cries or badgering beggings of the past. They are ordinary. Quiet. I sit. I wait. I get up…
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Betsy Johnson
What Football Can Teach Us About Our Thoughts
If you’ve ever watched football, you know pass interference is one of the calls a ref can make. It’s any act that significantly hinders a player’s…
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When Is a Mystery
Urgency runs our lives. We have an almost overwhelming sense of “hurry up and get it done.” When we live with urgency, we are rarely living where our…
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March 2024

What Did Today Do To You?
A question of opportunities, obstacles, and wonders
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How to Be Well on Your Way to Being Alive
Wouldn’t it be nice if someone walked up to you right now and said, “This is the way to be alive. This is what you should do, eat, believe, buy…
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Words and Whims
How a Play on Samuel Beckett Had Me Paying Attention
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February 2024

Life Can Get So Lifey Sometimes . . .
. . . and when that happens, it’s easy to get caught up in all kinds of stories and fears and histories and to send a rabble of ornery badgers up our…
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How to Live with Fire and Not Get Burned
I keep seeing fire everywhere. Not actual fire. More exhortations to give myself over to fire as a means of transformation. One piece I came across…
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When "What If's" Rule Your Life
and what you can do about it
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Pushing against walls
The truth about cause and effect
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January 2024

Thoughts Gathered from a Weekend Visit to My Old Journals
It’s all strangeness. Not knowing what now, what next. You needed this experience to get the light out.Betsy Being Betsy is a reader-supported…
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Bright and Broken
What it really means to be human
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