Rita Sommers-Flanagan
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Artist, Clinical Psychologist, Author, Gardener, Wanderer.
godcomesby.com/2025/10/19/f...
#alzheimer's
#aging
#grace
#beauty
#mysticalconversations
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Facing the Long Good-bye
In the stillness following a midnight stormmy eyes move across the surface of morning.First light reveals innocent branches bent lowfrom the weight of the wet, unseasonable snow.Her eyes follow minā¦
https://godcomesby.com/2025/10/19/facing-the-long-good-bye/
3 days ago
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#migration
#mutation
#mortality
#seasons
#fertility
#abortion
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The Coming of the Winter
Chopping hollyhock skeletons in the wind guarantees a shower of fertilize seeds scattering every which way. Far too many will attempt to germinate no matter where theyāve landed.Hollyhocks are crosā¦
https://godcomesby.com/2025/10/12/the-coming-of-the-winter/
10 days ago
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I don't know how much more cruelty and greed I can stand before I do something drastic but futile. March, people. March.
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What Rapture Really Looks Like
The Holy Intruder just elbowed into my psyche and is taking up precious cognitive space usually reserved for judging others, feeling sorry for myself, nursing grudges and disappointments, or composā¦
https://godcomesby.com/2025/10/05/what-rapture-really-looks-like/
17 days ago
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A poem. A confession. A little bit of hope.
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#TheGodIdea
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Here and Now
In front of me, red curtains, 47 paint brushes, and a few years.Alongside, turquoise drapes too long for the window wells,a boiled skull, three wishbones, a pink phone, and the idea that I am lovedā¦
https://godcomesby.com/2025/09/28/here-and-now/
24 days ago
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#consciousness
#spiritualawakening
#doomscrolling
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Walking Meditation
Last night, I tried to calm my restless body by changing my mental focus from doomscrolling to consciously observing each muscle involved in rolling over. Impossible. There are so many intricacies ā¦
https://godcomesby.com/2025/09/21/walking-meditation/
about 1 month ago
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Sunday. Time to post the week's ponderings. As Charlie Kirk dissipates into the nonviolent, nonracist, nonsexist, loving Creator, may we find better ways to seek enlightenment while we yet have form and substance.
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A Fortunate State of Existence
In Montana, we have 5.6 million square feet per person, slightly more than the 4.8 million square feet per person for the whole United States. In India, thereās just over 100 square feet per personā¦
https://godcomesby.com/2025/09/14/a-fortunate-state-of-existence/
about 1 month ago
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#holyquilting
#makingdo
#peace
#grace
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Advice From The Quilter
Use it upWear it outMake it doOr do without Everything has an expiration date. All the forethought in the world wonāt change that. All the planning, lying, and scheming. All the willful ignorance. ā¦
https://godcomesby.com/2025/09/07/advice-from-the-quilter/
about 1 month ago
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Give It Up
If you were the only Omnipotent Force in the universe, one would hope youād have a certain sense of humor: the kind without any of the usual mean or sarcastic twists. A good laugh is one thing. Cruā¦
https://godcomesby.com/2025/08/31/give-it-up/
about 2 months ago
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#deportation
#slavery
#depravity
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Posting Bail
Ignacio Manteca Humans are being bought and sold this morning. Iāve placed a bid on one, but weāll have to wait and see how it comes out. Iām having trouble with the messaging systems. A voicemail ā¦
https://godcomesby.com/2025/08/24/posting-bail/
about 2 months ago
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The greed and cruelty inherent in humanity is weighing heavily on my heart this morning. We don't HAVE TO BE THIS WAY.
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Come Winter
Sometimes when I listen to the lyrics or melodies of songs, I choke up. The depth, the artistry, the pathosāit is a profound gift to experience music.Other times, I can be moved to tears by the claā¦
https://godcomesby.com/2025/08/17/come-winter/
2 months ago
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The usual struggles are getting harder. Hang in there as best you can.
#forgive
#impossible
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Poems and Dialectics
Dear Readers,Odd week this week. Odd week every week. Here are three poems to consider. The first by Shel Silverstein. The second and third by me, struggling to respond to such an awful, open invitā¦
https://godcomesby.com/2025/08/10/poems-and-dialectics/
2 months ago
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#mortality
#perspective
#giveitall
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Seeing
Once in a while, the dead ask to borrow my eyes, and I almost always welcome them in. Sure, it can be sad and a little frightening, but itās the least I can do. Thereās nothing like the vision enjoā¦
https://godcomesby.com/2025/08/03/seeing/
3 months ago
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The Ducks
The ducklings escaped. We were gone and it was raining. Most likely, they waddled to the river and floated downstream. They may not have taken their size into account. They were too small to buck tā¦
https://godcomesby.com/2025/07/27/the-ducks/
3 months ago
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š Three Weeks in Edinburgh
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š Three Weeks in Edinburgh
It seems to me that now more than ever there is urgency in our collective culture to connect.
https://open.substack.com/pub/susanedsall/p/three-weeks-in-edinburgh?r=cah8n&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
3 months ago
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No one knows the best way to live their lives. Live anyway.
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Angles of Repose and Other Non Sequiturs
What do you suppose the angle of repose would be for those pyramids of dead bodies weāve seen in the news over the years? (The angle of repose is the steepest angle at which aĀ slopingĀ surā¦
https://godcomesby.com/2025/07/20/angles-of-repose-and-other-non-sequiturs/
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Hats
To avoid doom scrolling, I browse through the infamous āMarketplaceā and notice a lime green shed for sale. Iām drawn to sheds, and I love lime green. (And why would you need another shed? I ask myā¦
https://godcomesby.com/2025/07/13/hats/
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Unselfies
āNo, turn your head this way.ā The Creator pointed as she positioned her phone for one last shot. I felt silly playing along, but on the other hand, itās unwise to alienate God first thing in the mā¦
https://godcomesby.com/2025/07/06/unselfies/
4 months ago
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WHY would legitimate officers of the law mask up to do their dirty work??? Bounty hunters.
4 months ago
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Advice from the Artist
As you continue to diminish, finish your work with glossy varnish to protect against the ravages of too much sun.Safeguard the subtle shadingsand hoard the necessary joys of passing on.The river giā¦
https://godcomesby.com/2025/06/29/advice-from-the-artist/
4 months ago
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Sunday brings the start of a new week. June carries the transition from spring to summer. War continues to break out. This is another season of destruction...
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A.I.
Humans have always portrayed The Forces of Creation in our own languages and images. Only recently has our frenemy, Artificial Intelligence, joined us on this odyssey. Maybe this is helpful. Maybe ā¦
https://godcomesby.com/2025/06/22/a-i/
4 months ago
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Here's your Sunday Morning Pause and Think:
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Gun Racks to Book Shelves
My computer indicated it needed to be restarted this morning and then it wouldnāt stop. I would have panicked and forced a shutdown had not James, the patient man from the repair shop, assured me tā¦
https://godcomesby.com/2025/06/08/gun-racks-to-book-shelves/
5 months ago
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Good Morning. Let's talk about the cost of cruelty, shall we?
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Runoff
Lately, Iāve been fixated on guttering. We have a lot of unguttered or badly guttered buildings. When rain falls on impervious surfaces and is not guttered or sloped away, it pools up and erodes olā¦
https://godcomesby.com/2025/06/01/runoff/
5 months ago
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So much good news dragged through human hatred, transformed by human cruelty, used to pacify the masses...
godcomesby.com/2025/05/25/t...
#agape
#allaresaved
#loveisanswer
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Too Many Jesuses
If I speak in the tongues of angels and women, of cancers, mildew, and broken teeth, but have not love, nothing much happens. Most platitudes are contradictions. Old mirrors and darkened glass neitā¦
https://godcomesby.com/2025/05/25/too-many-jesuses/
5 months ago
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Friendly Fire
Each moment is a drink of water,a green ball bouncing downthe gravel road, a quandary as simpleas kindness, the idea of more stars.Thereās nothing to fear but the snapping of branches in the wind.Tā¦
https://godcomesby.com/2025/05/18/friendly-fire/
5 months ago
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the REAL mother's day thoughts...
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Familiars
Photo credit: Anonymous Friend My body is only vaguely familiar this morning. We greet each other suspiciously, as if one of us hails from the Deep State and the other from Nirvana. We shake hands,ā¦
https://godcomesby.com/2025/05/11/familiars/
5 months ago
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An argument with
#DylanThomas
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Go Gently
The world is filled with natural stompers. This is not destination dependent. No matter where the stompers think theyāre going, their determined stride sends shock waves up their legs and into theiā¦
https://godcomesby.com/2025/05/04/go-gently/
6 months ago
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Eyes For Eyes
We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive. āAlbert Einstein Little Ralphie slugged Little Lana in the stomach, and she fell. He punched her in the face ā¦
https://godcomesby.com/2025/04/27/eyes-for-eyes/
6 months ago
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May the utter absurdity of hope mitigate the terrors of this night. Happy Easter.
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Sāmores with Demons: An Easter Story
āSo, someone said youāre a mystic, huh?ā an evil little bastard snarled, red eyes glowing. āThereās a special place in hell for people like you.ā I remembered the story of Pilate quizzing Jesus aboā¦
https://godcomesby.com/2025/04/20/smores-with-demons-an-easter-story/
6 months ago
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Escape
Edvard Munch 1893 What makes you happy when you wake up alive?You only need one, but you can name up to five.The dog, your shoes, your home, or the sun?A good cup of coffee? A cinnamon bun?(The alpā¦
https://godcomesby.com/2025/04/13/escape/
6 months ago
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Vocabulary
This morning, Iāve been making up words. Having the right word can be helpful in times like these. For instance, ludiaucracy (loo-dee-awe-cracy): an ill-fated form of government led by the ludicrouā¦
https://godcomesby.com/2025/04/06/vocabulary/
7 months ago
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On the Bright Side
Letās keep it light today, I suggest to The Interaction. Great idea, she nods happily. You go first.Right. Me. Well, I could fill this day with music.The Interaction feigns interest. I laugh. I havā¦
https://godcomesby.com/2025/03/30/on-the-bright-side/
7 months ago
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The White House is pulling Elise Stefanikās nomination because they know theyāre about to lose control of the House. They are sweating over a deep red R+20 district.
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The chat room whiskeyleaks crew should all lose their jobs.
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That's mold. It is present and grows when conditions are right.
#Rotten
#Cruel
#False
#Loveyourneighbor
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Nobody Loves an Alarm Clock, butā¦
Few would argue with the claim that the United States is in terrible trouble, but vicious battles rage over why. The anger on every side has some validity. There are grave injustices, inequities, tā¦
https://drbossypants.wordpress.com/2025/03/26/nobody-loves-an-alarm-clock-but/
7 months ago
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Bluesky seems futile to me....I just don't get how to let people know I've posted something. Bummer.
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Neuropathy
Photo copied from random internet search The cold hands of March are not easily forced into the welcoming shape of April. March is in denial about her advancing neuropathy, made worse by the chemicā¦
https://godcomesby.com/2025/03/23/neuropathy/
7 months ago
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Birds in flight in the steady wind. People, it's time to fly.
#resist
#liberty
#democracy
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Remember Your Lines
Sing a song of sixpence, a pocket full of rye.Four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie.When the pie was opened, the birds began to sing.Wasnāt that a dainty dish to set before the king?The kā¦
https://godcomesby.com/2025/03/16/remember-your-lines/
7 months ago
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āļø Keep Flying The Plane
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āļø Keep Flying The Plane
Iām scared unlike Iāve ever been scared in my life.
https://open.substack.com/pub/susanedsall/p/keep-flying-the-plane?r=3h7mq0&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
7 months ago
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IT IS AND IS NOT TOO LATE
Do not think you can abdicate. āW.H. Auden The Great Wrongness is upon us. Again. Do not wave white flags. Being taken captive is inadvisable. Seek shelter. Provide shelter. If you cannot go ā¦
https://godcomesby.com/2025/03/09/it-is-and-is-not-too-late/
8 months ago
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Delusions that are killing us.
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Delusions to Die By
Though historians may beg to differ, it seems that humans have never been this close to self-annihilation. While wars rage and the earth gets trashed, the most pressing moral inquiry of the masses ā¦
https://godcomesby.com/2025/03/02/delusions-to-die-by/
8 months ago
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Look. Listen. Act.
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Who You Talking To?
R: Hey, G. Itās way below zero. You planning to show up today?G: I always show up. I live in the thermometer. Itās your job to recognize me.R: Yeah. But your guises and costumes are confusing.G: Soā¦
https://godcomesby.com/2025/02/23/who-you-talking-to/
8 months ago
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This election was not stolen. It was paid for on credit. The bills are now coming due.
8 months ago
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In Sheepās Clothing
News flash: Thereās a deadly outbreak of malice spreading rapidly. Weāre all at risk. The Belt of Truth is too tight on our fat bellies. Weāve armed ourselves with swords of scorn and hatred. Most ā¦
https://godcomesby.com/2025/02/16/in-sheeps-clothing/
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Finding our way with compassion, wisdom, and courage...not guns!!
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Big Comes By
As great chunks of what weāve known to be good in our community, country, and world continue to crumble, grief and disbelief have paralyzed me. My Friend, Big, comes by to offer his shoulder to cryā¦
https://godcomesby.com/2025/02/09/big-comes-by/
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Attention!!
āFolks, could I have your attention, please?ā Ā This is a request youāll never hear from The Evolutionary Force of the Universe. She wonāt tap a glass or clap her hands. She wonāt shout, whistlā¦
https://godcomesby.com/2025/02/02/attention/
9 months ago
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Here I am, posting on the Blue, not knowing exactly how to handle the platform, but determined to learn!
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Tallies
How many pots have you scorched in pursuit of the good life, warm soup, or steamed greens? No worries. Youāre often distracted by sparkling words.How many scrapes and bruises have you endured becauā¦
https://godcomesby.com/2025/01/26/tallies/
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Supreme Court rejects Republican-backed Montana case based on controversial election law theory
The Supreme Court has turned back an election law case out of Montana that relied on a controversial legal theory with the potential to change the way elections are run across the country.
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