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amyk's avatar

I was so scared of heaven as a kid too! Specifically of eternity—the unendingness of it all, the mindstretching incomprehensibility.

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Meg Conley's avatar

Yes, I think a static eternity especially sounds so scary!

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Freya Rohn's avatar

I love everything about this. Those moments reading before bed, the things and ways that kids will say and think about things--the existential questions that we also think about, but never in ways so specific, so raw. This is a beautiful framework to think about the events of our weeks--thank you for writing it.

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Meg Conley's avatar

I really, really appreciate this, Freya. I've missed ruminating without concrete analysis. Ha! Which is probably something I shouldn't say? But I hope this column each weeks helps me open up my eyes again in ways that used to come pretty naturally.

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Chris La Tray's avatar

Three things in response:

Donut Tuesday. I'm reminded that this coming Tuesday is the first Tuesday after the full moon, the Tuesday in which the prophets recently proclaimed it is okay to feast upon donuts from the best place in town (Rosauers grocery store). I appreciate the reminder.

Where you're at. For some reason I always associate you with Seattle. But then you write something – this time merely saying "on Colfax" – and I'm reminded you're in Denver. Isn't that weird?

Red Rocks. Last fall I had tickets to see the band Heilung there, but went instead to Minnesota for a Little Shell thing. I don't regret it, but I'd have loved to see them there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64CACoHNBEI

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Meg Conley's avatar

I've been to Rosauers! My brother in law and sister lived in Bozeman for a few years. He's an ag professor and taught at the university. They couldn't afford to stay, which is a heart break. But I did have a Rosauers donut on several occasions.

I associate myself with Seattle too, even though I've only been there twice. Ha! I just think it's gorgeous. I'm from Southern California. Lived in Oakland until 2019. Been in Denver since then. I think we'll stay. I love it. Though I'll never get used to how high and dry it is.

I've become too fussy for most venues. I feel afraid in large crowds of people. But Red Rocks never feels frightening. I love it there. I'd never heard of Heilung. Looked them up and now feel I should become acquainted. Minnesota! My middle daughter was just assigned a book about a Obijwe boy on the Fond du Lac Reservation. I looked the book up last week and it was not well-received by some Obijwe reviewers. The AICL was also not a fan. But there are other reviewers who loved it. I am obviously out of my depth with this one, I still know so little about...well everything. But I'll be reading along with her so we can interrogate the text together, with lots of sources pulled in to help us. Hopefully, it's a good way to teach her to read with humility. Anyways, all to say...Minnesota has been on my mind the past week. And I've never even been there.

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Chris La Tray's avatar

Okay, now I have to ask what the book is....

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Carolyn's avatar

Yes, Rosauers does have great donuts. I have tried the fancy kinds on the hip strip, while tasty, they are so over the top that they do not qualify as donuts in my mind. Fried dough with sugar needs nothing else.

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Chris La Tray's avatar

Agreed.

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Becky S's avatar

Lovely, Meg 💗

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Meg Conley's avatar

Thank you so much, Becky.

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Lauren's avatar

The humanity in the unhoused. Thank you for putting it to some beautiful poignant words. I live in a city with many unhoused and have lived in major cities in other countries which do not have the unhoused in the way that we do. I pray that in the future we will look back with horror on this time when we denied so many people the basic right to shelter. As a mother I don't know what I am teaching my children when we pass these people on the street. We often give money, sometime we don't. Some of them have lived in the neighborhood longer than we have, for years. Anyways, no real conclusions or solutions here, so I'm just going to leave this comment here.

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Meg Conley's avatar

Housing is a human right. I think someday we'll all know that. Or I hope we will.

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Katherine de Vos Devine's avatar

Meg, that made me sob at my desk.

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Meg Conley's avatar

OH MY GOODNESS! High praise! And I am sorry! And thank you!

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Julie Gillis's avatar

Perfect.

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