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Bethany Colas
May 144 min read
On belonging
It’s been almost two weeks since I drove onto the grounds of Glen Eyrie and marveled at the red rock formations—ancient towers of...
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Bethany Colas
Mar 163 min read
The little legacies we leave behind
I noticed, the other day, a patch of crocuses coming up by the basketball hoop we inherited with this house when we moved in. Like much...
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Bethany Colas
May 14, 20233 min read
Redefining grief
While preparing for our last move, I wrote about the regret I felt at not having put down deeper roots during our time in Northern...
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Bethany Colas
Apr 26, 20232 min read
Between here and there
Well, here we are again, on the cusp of yet another move. We've entered that part of the process where I can no longer pretend it's...
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Bethany Colas
Jul 13, 20222 min read
Haiku 7
We bleed common grace like berries in the sun; words drip from fingertips I wrote this final haiku months after I wrote the others as the...
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Bethany Colas
Jun 15, 20227 min read
Haiku 6
A fallen thing, we land in open hands, as soft as they are strong. During the first year of the pandemic there were times I felt a sense...
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Bethany Colas
Apr 16, 20222 min read
Thirst
There’s a girl who should be climbing trees or riding her bicycle in the street, not hiding in her basement, breathing shallow breaths...
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Bethany Colas
Feb 27, 20225 min read
Haiku 5
[Disclaimer: Technically, this isn't a haiku. It has the right number of syllables all together but not per line. I tried shifting things...
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Bethany Colas
Feb 18, 20223 min read
Haikus 3 & 4
Haiku 3 You come to the house of birdsong wrapped in a sigh, sleep still in your eyes. Haiku 4 Soft and small, his hand fits mine; he...
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Bethany Colas
Feb 10, 20223 min read
Haiku 2
Throughout the winter of 2020, I took daily walks around our suburban neighborhood. Being relatively new to the South (if northern...
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Bethany Colas
Feb 1, 20223 min read
Haiku 1
Raise a glass to jazz. Triple-step, slap a knee, laugh when you miss a beat. In January and February of 2020, right before the first wave...
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Bethany Colas
Jan 20, 20222 min read
A handful of haikus
A few months into the pandemic, at about the point we realized we were in it for the long haul, my dad had the idea that we should write...
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Bethany Colas
Jan 6, 20222 min read
On Epiphany
And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and...
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Bethany Colas
May 10, 20212 min read
On watching our tone
We're all a little on edge these days as we prepare to move, and I find myself using the classic parenting phrase "watch your tone of...
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Bethany Colas
Apr 3, 20214 min read
On the grief of goodbye and hello
Part of the moving process for me is taking a moment to consider the graces, big and small, that make each new place we live our home. I...
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Bethany Colas
Mar 19, 20213 min read
When faced with the inevitable | Part II
You can find Part 1 here. When I ask myself how I’ll choose to take the inevitability of this upcoming move or any other inevitability in...
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Bethany Colas
Mar 5, 20212 min read
When faced with the inevitable | Part I
There’s a line in A.R. Ammons poem “An Improvisation for the Stately Dwelling” that comes to mind often right now: what is to become of...
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Bethany Colas
Sep 8, 20191 min read
For when you want to do good works
"For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them."...
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Bethany Colas
Jul 4, 20192 min read
For when you're afraid of friction
Note to self: Life is full of friction and you will spend a good deal of your life trying to avoid it. You will put your hope in...
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Bethany Colas
May 24, 20192 min read
For when you feel the divide
Note to self: There will be days when you look at the people closest to you, the ones you move through life with every day, and you will...
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