White Awake
I have so many thoughts. My first thought is for all of my white friends: please read the book. Please step back and be willing to...
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Debbie Haliday
- Feb 10, 2022
- 5 min
"dear white peacemakers"
I love this book. “dear white peacemakers” is an honest, complex, anti-racist, deeply spiritual book. Osheta Moore gives us a beautiful...
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Debbie Haliday
- Feb 9, 2022
- 2 min
Snowy Memories
Sitting in my hotel room last week in Ft. Wayne, Indiana, I found myself staring out the window at this view. The landscape, the grey,...
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Debbie Haliday
- Nov 18, 2020
- 4 min
Resiliency
I was thinking today...I don't like feeling fragile. It struck me as something I should think about more...and usually my best thinking...
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Debbie Haliday
- Jun 30, 2020
- 7 min
The New May & June
Dear Friends, So much has happened in the last six weeks.... I could actually say--so much has happened since 2020 started.... Right?...
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Debbie Haliday
- Apr 10, 2020
- 5 min
Elvis and Swing Time - Good Friday Thoughts
This past July, summer of 2019, we made a big change and moved our lives to northern California. We had been in the LA area since...
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Debbie Haliday
- Apr 6, 2020
- 4 min
A New Normal?
I am trying to learn to write. Of course, it is a lot like trying to learn to pray, you must just do it. Write. Pray. Get to it. Start....
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Debbie Haliday
- Mar 27, 2020
- 5 min
How are you?
For quite a few years I’ve been working on how I process feelings. Honestly, I’m not very good at it. I recognize that I’m very measured...
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Debbie Haliday
- Mar 8, 2020
- 4 min
Life with Libby #2 -- If Jesus passed you on the street....
Dear Libby, Thank you for the letter! :) It has the coolest stamps from Australia! And it’s very wonderful to see your handwriting and...
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Deborah Haliday
- Feb 25, 2020
- 4 min
Wheaton and White Privilege
Sometimes I get to go places and see people, and really, I do love this gift from God. I especially love settling into my window seat...
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Deborah Haliday
- Feb 19, 2020
- 4 min
Life with Libby...#1
Libby...thanks for the questions on packing and moving. I am sharing them here so everyone can see! “Unpacking at the new house, are...
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Deborah Haliday
- Feb 11, 2020
- 4 min
Life with Libby -- an Introduction
There are some (many!) odd things about growing older. This is year 60 for me…which is almost incomprehensible. I mean, I was a...
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Deborah Haliday
- Feb 4, 2020
- 6 min
Black History Month...and the Super Bowl
February is Black History Month. It has been an important month for me the past few years in particular. I’ve enjoyed working with the...
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Deborah Haliday
- Jan 20, 2020
- 2 min
Grieving...and Dr. King
I am feeling a weight of sadness today. I can name the feeling—it’s grief. I’m grieving. I’m grieving Dr. King. I will be honest…it’s...
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Deborah Haliday
- Dec 24, 2019
- 3 min
This Christmas
Advent means the arrival of someone or something…a “notable person, thing, or event.” I was just sitting here looking at our Christmas...
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Deborah Haliday
- Dec 10, 2019
- 4 min
Wind
One of my earliest memories is standing in our back yard and looking up at very tall trees. I was by myself. Probably about five or six...
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Deborah Haliday
- Dec 3, 2019
- 3 min
Another Tuesday
I have resisted this Tuesday...Giving Tuesday. I am cynical about so many things these days...honestly. So I therefore do not want to...
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Debbie Haliday
- Nov 1, 2019
- 5 min
Sometimes I disappear...
I feel like I disappeared...some of you wouldn't have noticed. I'm not being critical. It's just how life is, right? We come and go a...
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Deborah Haliday
- Oct 25, 2018
- 4 min
Perspective Poems...Los Angeles
I’m not a poet, at least not in a real and trained way. I write poems but that doesn’t mean they are acceptable by real poets, that’s...
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Debbie Haliday
- Feb 8, 2018
- 4 min
Loser
The last few weeks have been...interesting. I would characterize them by saying that I have not been very happy with myself in various...
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