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About Karen Molenaar Terrell

Karen's stories have appeared in *Newsweek*, *The Christian Science Monitor*, and *Pack and Paddle Magazine* and she's the author of *Are You Taking Me Home Now?: Adventures with Dad*, *The Second Hundred Years: Further Adventures with Dad*, *The Brush of Angel Wings*, *The Madcap Christian Scientist* series, *A Poem Sits on my Windowsill*, *Finding the Rainbows: Lessons from Dad and Mom*, and co-author of *The Humoristian Chronicles: A Most Unusual Fellowship*. Her photos are featured in the spring 2014 edition of the *Bellingham Review*, and the "Photos from the Field" page of the April/May 2017, December/January 2018-2019, April/May 2019, and June/July 2020 issues of of *Mother Earth News*. Her photos can be found here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/60803140@N06/ Her books can be found here: http://www.amazon.com/Karen-Molenaar-Terrell/e/B0044P90RQ/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1312060042&sr=8-

Note to Self…

Ahem. Note to self:

self-importance

Old Friends

She had lived all her life in Silverstream and her neighbors were people who had known her from childhood, and therefore had a preconceived idea of her, so engrained, that they never saw her at all, any more than they saw the sponge which accompanied them daily into their baths.
D.E. Stevenson

old friends

Questions About Religion

Just curious… 🙂

religion

photo of cannon at Fort Ticonderoga by Karen Molenaar Terrell

 

A Power Available to All

There ain’t no midi-chlorians here… 🙂

no midi-chlorians

photo of Mount McKinley by Karen Molenaar Terrell

The World Needs You…

 

You are not worthless…

the world needs you

photo by Karen Molenaar Terrell

I Am My Own Flock

So then he says to her, he says, Oh yeah? Well, your flock is responsible for the Crusades, the Salem Witch Trials, and the Spanish Inquisition. And then she says, she says, Well, YOUR flock has Pol Pot and Stalin in it! And then they both accuse the other one of Hitler, and then they both alls of a sudden notice me sitting there, eating my clam, minding my own business,see? And they wanna know which flock I’m in, and I tells ’em, I tells ’em,all serious-like, I no longer feel the need to defend or explain any one else’s behavior or words, for I am my own flock. And I make sure to roll the “r” in “for”because that’s, like, really classy, right?…

he says she says

photo by Karen Molenaar Terrell

Accepting the Moment

Trying to change the moment into something more comfortable instead of just accepting it for what it is… is really a waste of energy, ain’t it? … Of course, if you’re sitting on a tack or something you might want to remove it, but still…

change the moment

photo by Karen Molenaar Terrell

Who do you think you are…?

Who do you think you are NOT to use your gifts and talents?

arts

photo by Karen Molenaar Terrell

You Are Still a Miracle! So there!

Yup. You – yes, YOU! – are STILL a miracle…

miracles

photo by Karen Molenaar Terrell

Connecting with Life…

Those times when I’ve encountered and connected with expressions of Life on their own turf, beach, and limb have been magic for me – as cool as meeting and communing with aliens from another planet…

connecting with nature

photo by Karen Molenaar Terrell

 

photo by Karen Molenaar Terrell