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Origami as a Spiritual Practice

Posted on April 5, 2018January 28, 2021 by ptsblog

For more than 30 years, I have enjoyed the Japanese art of origami. For most of that time, creating objects by folding a single sheet of paper was a hobby. Scrap paper is literally everywhere, so finding material has never been a problem. A brightly colored ad from a magazine would become a flower. A…

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Easter Dawns in Pittsburgh’s Riverview Park

Posted on March 29, 2018January 28, 2021 by ptsblog

“Easter Sunrise Service in the park. It sounded good to our family. But the only one we knew about in Pittsburgh was held in Schenley Park, way on the other side of the city. It would mean at least an hour’s street car ride to get there, so, of course, we didn’t go. That was…

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Mister Rogers: A Neighbor before Neighboring Was Cool

Posted on March 23, 2018January 28, 2021 by ptsblog

“Won’t you be my neighbor?” For multiple generations of Americans these words instantly call to mind a familiar melody and images of a warm smile, cardigans, blue shoes, and trolleys. I’m no different, by the time I went to kindergarten in the fall of 1989 I’m sure I had heard Mister Rogers’ (at 1962 alumnus…

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