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Posted June 28th, 2012 by Thomas Norman DeWolf
This is a sad note to post. I’ve procrastinated writing it for months. I learned in January that A Novel Idea, one of my favorite independent bookstores, closed it’s doors in Bristol, Rhode Island last December. Such closings are a sad epidemic across the country. I was so looking forward to making an appearance at […]
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Posted June 19th, 2012 by Thomas Norman DeWolf
I’ve been home from Virginia for a few days now. I continue to think about all that I experienced in the Summer Peacebuilding Institute class in which I participated at Eastern Mennonite University: Healing the Wounds of History: Peacebuilding through Transformative Theater. Our instructor, Armand Volkas, is a psychotherapist, drama therapist and theater director. He […]
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Posted June 16th, 2012 by Thomas Norman DeWolf
Salt Lake City, Utah. I sit in the terminal for an almost-four-hour layover thinking about the past week at the Summer Peacebuilding Institute, Healing the Wounds of History through the use of Transformative Theater, and how deep the traumatic wounds can be that impact all of us. I plan to write about the class I […]
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Posted June 14th, 2012 by Thomas Norman DeWolf
I anticipated that I would write today about the class in which I’m participating at the Summer Peacebuilding Institute in Harrisonburg Virginia: “Healing the Wounds of History: Peacebuilding through Transformative Theater.” But an incident in Pittsburgh yesterday changed everything. I arrived at class a little early this morning. One of my classmates walked in and […]
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Posted June 12th, 2012 by Thomas Norman DeWolf
Whenever I’m here, the song gently plays in my mind over and over. I never tire of it. As with many American folk songs of uncertain origin, the meaning of Oh, Shenandoah is unclear. For me, I simply long to return here whenever I can; to the home of Coming to the Table. This is […]
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Posted June 10th, 2012 by Thomas Norman DeWolf
You try to sleep, you toss and turn, the bottom’s dropping out Where you once had faith now there’s only doubt You pray for guidance, only silence now meets your prayers The morning breaks, you awake but no one’s there We’ve been traveling over rocky ground, rocky ground There’s a new day coming I’ve listened […]
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Posted May 21st, 2012 by Thomas Norman DeWolf
Children are the most precious beings on earth — and they say the most special things. On a recent visit, my two little sweethearts, wandering around my office looking for things to get into, discovered the proof copy of Gather at the Table on my credenza. Julian picked up the book and looked at it […]
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Posted May 10th, 2012 by Thomas Norman DeWolf
My wife Lindi and my friend and writing partner Sharon have gone to sleep. As they rest upstairs, I sit alone in Sharon’s dining room; thinking. The clock that counts down the time until Gather at the Table is published ticks by very quickly. Lindi and I arrived at Sharon’s home yesterday. We depart tomorrow. […]
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Posted May 8th, 2012 by Thomas Norman DeWolf
Tom DeWolf and I penned an article that has just appeared in the Oklahoma Humanities magazine. The them of the issue is “reconciliation” and our contribution is entitled “Making Peace with the Past.” Oklahoma was one of the stops on the road trip we took last year to inform the writing of our book. It […]
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Posted April 3rd, 2012 by Thomas Norman DeWolf
In response to a March 23 post at my Inheriting the Trade blog — “Trayvon Martin: thoughts from a white parent” — a reader posted the following comment: I cannot stop thinking about all of the Whites, who have been murdered by blacks, because they were in the wrong place at a certain time, or […]
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