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Read more about the article A Place for Extravagant Beauty

A Place for Extravagant Beauty

  • Post author:Amy Julia Becker
  • Post published:April 27, 2022
  • Post category:Faith/Healing
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Flowers serve a purpose, I know, evolutionarily. But I’ve been gazing at this arrangement of flowers leftover from Sunday’s party and thinking how absurd it is. How funny and winsome…

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Why Did I Get Covid?

  • Post author:Amy Julia Becker
  • Post published:April 23, 2022
  • Post category:Healing
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I’ve now been in bed with Covid for a few days. Sneezing, coughing, sniffling, cycling through chills and fever. I haven’t been sick like this in years.  In To Be…

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Love Looks Like Fish Tacos

  • Post author:Amy Julia Becker
  • Post published:February 23, 2022
  • Post category:Family
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Sometimes love comes in the form of fish tacos.  I’ve been eating as a pescatarian for a few weeks now. Our family knows this, but we haven’t really changed our…

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What Energizes Me? Anxiety or Love?

  • Post author:Amy Julia Becker
  • Post published:February 17, 2022
  • Post category:Faith/Healing
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Anxiety often wakes me up in the morning (not to mention in the middle of the night). My concern over the to-do list and my unspoken fear about what will…

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Why a Failed Shopping Expedition Was Still a Great Birthday Present

  • Post author:Amy Julia Becker
  • Post published:February 5, 2022
  • Post category:Family/Parenting
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Marilee turned 11 last Sunday. We drove to Brooklyn early to meet her new cousin, and we had already planned to see Wicked on Broadway with tickets that we had…

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Read more about the article Getting the Booster Is a Way to Love My Neighbor

Getting the Booster Is a Way to Love My Neighbor

  • Post author:Amy Julia Becker
  • Post published:December 23, 2021
  • Post category:Current Events/Faith/Healing
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This is me outside the pharmacy where I got my booster shot. I don’t want to get Covid, but honestly, the reason I got the booster is not out of…

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Read more about the article Loves Looks to Move Towards One Another

Loves Looks to Move Towards One Another

  • Post author:Amy Julia Becker
  • Post published:December 7, 2021
  • Post category:Disability
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My friend’s son was whistling in class. The other kids were annoyed. Another friend’s daughter drools a lot and other kids think it’s “gross.” Some kids smell bad. Others make…

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Meritocracy Is the Antithesis to Love | Plough Essay

  • Post author:Amy Julia Becker
  • Post published:December 2, 2021
  • Post category:Disability/Down Syndrome
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Meritocracy is the antithesis to love.  I first wrote those words almost two years ago, when we were traveling cross-country and we were taking regular hikes as a family. On…

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Talking About Disability

  • Post author:Amy Julia Becker
  • Post published:October 13, 2021
  • Post category:Disability/Down Syndrome/Parenting
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I remember this time, back when Penny was really little, when we were at a birthday party together and another mom was there with her child who also had a…

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The Bible Is Not About Behavior Management

  • Post author:Amy Julia Becker
  • Post published:September 14, 2021
  • Post category:Faith
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I often misinterpret the words in the Bible as behavior management, when they are really invitations to surrender to love. Jesus says: “Do not judge, and you will not be…

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