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Icons and Ashes

When the appliance repair man pulled a small lump of debris out of the washing machine filter, I sorted through it and found that it was mostly just lint, along with a nickel, a penny, and a piece of corroded metal about the size of a quarter. The latter had a four-leaf shape and seemed to be etched with images, so I got my photographer’s loupe and gave it a closer look. Sure enough, each of the leaves bore an image: Jesus, Mary, Saint Joseph and Saint Christopher. In the middle was a dove.

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For Wilshire Baptist Church

I have a cassette tape labeled “Wilshire Winds – Acclimation.” The label is incorrect because the piece of music on the tape is actually titled “Acclamation,” but I’ll go with “Acclimation” because that’s what the recording represents to me.

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For Wilshire Baptist Church

On Valentine’s Day in grade school we’d make mailboxes out of shoeboxes decorated with red construction paper, glitter, ribbons and other arts and crafts stuff. Some years the mailboxes would sit on the corner of our desks and other years we’d line them all up together on a shelf along the wall. At different times during the day we’d go around dropping Valentine’s cards into each other’s mailboxes, and at the end of the school day we’d have a party with cupcakes and punch and we’d open our mailboxes to read the cards inside.

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