Brokenness was not at the top of my Christmas list. The ornaments defining our family tree lay shattered. The ragged edges of devastation replaced the Continue Reading
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The Joy of Mandatory Merriment
by Frank Pauc This first appeared in Frank’s blog on December 4, 2021, as "Joy." [And in The Havok Journal on December 14, 2021]. It is Continue Reading
Find Your Clouds and Don’t Let Them Slip Away
I've been blessed to spend quite a bit of time with my grandchildren recently and all of them are elementary school age and younger. We have spent Continue Reading
An Ode to Joy
We all do what we can. I bit off smaller pieces in my last three musical essays, hoping it would show me a way to tackle one on Beethoven’s 9th Continue Reading