News

02
Jan

Recycle Your Styrofoam From the Holiday Season!

Countryside is collecting heavy, white EPS  (hard white packaging foam used to transport goods like glass, medications and perishables) for recycling through Jan. 12. Keep it out of the landfill […]

02
Jan

Parasympathetic

I used to worry about joy. Mostly I worried that I didn’t have any, but I couldn’t tell because I wasn’t sure what joy even was. I knew I regularly […]

23
Dec

C and Es: A Devotional

My clearest memories of church growing up are Christmas Eve services. I didn’t know a lot of hymns, but I knew the carols. I didn’t have a regular practice of […]

18
Dec

Brightness Is a Parlor Trick

Anybody can be bright. Anybody can learn to shine and sparkle and make the people ooh and ahh. Being shiny, even blindingly so, is a parlor trick. And it sure doesn’t mean you’re […]

11
Dec

O Holy Night

In the perfect Christmas Eve scene, the candles are all lit and haven’t started dripping on the tablecloth yet. My makeup is perfect, and I haven’t teared up yet. The […]

03
Dec

Checkmate

Our games of chess played out the same way, over and over again: the opening moves; the hope by the sister that her little brother wouldn’t do the same thing […]

27
Nov

Martin’s Cappa and What it Did

Legend has it that once upon a time, in 300-something-CE Gaul, the unwilling soldier who would later become Martin of Tours was riding along in his Roman military outfit. Seeing […]

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