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One of the challenges I set for myself at the end of last year was to practice what I was preaching which was encouraging other people to submit their creative works to literary and commercial publications.  Towards that end, I submitted three images of a Somerville sunset to the online literary magazine, The Critical Pass.  I was honored that one of the images was selected to appear in the current issue, viewable via this link.  While, if you choose, you can easily discover which of these three images was selected, I hope you’ll have time to browse the other works in this issue, as well,  from the thoughtful Letter from the Editor to a wonderful interview with a 15-year old poet (pp. 18-20).

FYI, each of these images is available in my Zazzle Shop here, here and here.

It forms in all sorts of shapes and patterns.

I was talking with my brother on the phone this morning.  Since the two of us have been known to converse for quite a while, I found myself a chair.  It’s the chair where I normally look through the rippled glass window …

but this morning my eyes rested upon a neighboring wall where sunlight played.

The show didn’t last for long, just long enough, and here are a few scenes from the drama.

Now I know that many people do crash diets and other crazy weight loss methods that require you to fast from food or forgo those meals that you love to eat. From my experience, almost everyone that try the starvation method end up gaining the weight back quickly.  I am here to tell you it is because food deprivation is not the way to go. It might work for a few days or weeks, but it does not solve the underlying problems.

Being a healthy person requires changes in eating habits. What you eat, the portion sizes, and even the times of the day that you eat affect your health. All of these factors need to be adjusted to lose weight and keep it off.

Your body is like a machine, give it the right fuel and maintain it so that it will run longer with much fewer complications.

Eat…

These are the hands of St. Paul, St. Peter and Jesus as painted by John La Farge in the murals for Trinity Church.  I was inspired to create this compilation by the moving images and words in Steve McCurry’s recent post, The Language of Hands. I may write more about hands in the future, but for now, I hope you enjoy these images.

St. Paul’s hands

St. Peter, the key in his hand

Jesus with Nicodemus, hands resting

Hands of Christ and Woman at the Well

St. Paul

The Visit of Nicodemus to Christ