Sue Bidstrup / Great Big YES!

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Category: Enthusiastic Yes!

  • Unforced Rhythms of Grace

    Unforced Rhythms of Grace

    I saw a young couple running today. They were probably in their 30s and they seemed so serious, frowning while their feet smacked the pavement. Pounding, punishing, focused.   I smiled at them and said good morning as I was walking by with my dog. They didn’t smile or say…

  • How to See the Sacred in the Midst of the Profane

    How to See the Sacred in the Midst of the Profane

    What does profane even mean?   I was in New York City this last weekend and I had so much fun exploring. At one point, I was inside a cathedral along with a bunch of other tourists. I wondered how and when churches became more like a museums. These days…

  • Stop Being Nice

    Stop Being Nice

    In the dictionary, the word nice means pleasant, agreeable, satisfactory, fine or subtle.  I also found these details about its origin from Oxford Languages online that I find interesting. It meant ‘stupid’ in Old French and from Latin ‘ignorant’. Other early interpretations included ‘coy, reserved’, giving rise to ‘fastidious, scrupulous’:…