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Updates from your friends at the Guild!
An Updated Website
If you’ve perused the Guild’s website recently, you may have noticed a few changes! We hope this new web experience will make the Guild’s website easier to navigate, and make it easier to bring digital content to our community. Some notable changes to the website includes: Over the next few weeks, we will work to…
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Summer Gratitude
We rose this morning to the call of osprey young, demanding breakfast after a night of lightning, thunder, and rain. The ground is moist underfoot, and the earth is full of lively noises – folks crawling out from the dry dust and heat of summer to celebrate WATER. Only the Wenatchee river is quieter, sinking low on…
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New Guild Master
The title of “Guild Master,” bestowed by the Guild’s Board of Directors, honors artists whose life, faith, and work exemplifies what the Grünewald Guild seeks to embody in the world. On September 23, the Guild is excited to install its newest Guild Master – Kristen Gilje. As an artist working primarily within the fluid mediums…
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From The Heart Of The Guild
Reflections and writings from Plain and beyond!
What Does It Mean To Belong?
There is a tension for me, not simply in the idea of belonging, but the word itself and its two definitions. That of property, and that of intimate relationship. The first thing that many people think of, when they think of belonging, is family. Unfortunately, family represents both types of belonging. As a child we…
Keep readingSharing the Load: A March Reflection on Be•Longing
It was Mother’s Day. I was visiting a congregation. Their tradition was to invite members to speak on days like this. A young woman, visibly pregnant, maybe 5 months, stood at the podium, and began to share. She began, “things weren’t always great with my mom, in fact, they were pretty awful…” As she continued to share her…
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The Space In Between
I keep looking at the dot, that little mark taking up space between be and longing, that has inserted itself into a perfectly fine word. No one asked this little dot to show up in the middle of belonging, yet here it is, taking up space – even more space than some of the letters.…
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