Tag Archives: Thirst

Stop

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To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here “Water, water everywhere, and all the boards did shrink; water, water everywhere, nor any drop to drink.” Those famous words come from “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s 1798 poem in which he describes a sailor who, stranded in the middle of the ocean, is dying of thirst… Read more »

A Life-Giving Spring

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To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Certain animals look as if they could only have sprung from the imagination of Doctor Seuss. One of those is the gerenuk antelope, a reclusive member of the gazelle family that lives in the semi-arid grasslands and deserts of east Africa. Europeans didn’t even know of their existence until 1879. “Gerenuk”… Read more »