Carolin M Paradis

Blog Writer & Author

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Dead End Disappointment. I am a grown woman. Disappointment is not new to me. This was only one of many. But why do we always want more? https://t.co/cNtb7Qe7zK

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Newsletter 2024 - https://t.co/D4WO8Hpc8k

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The 2024 Word Guild Awards Update - https://t.co/qiwj023Fhe

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I am excited to share that my manuscript “God Quest: God Discovered in Everyday Places” was short listed for The 2024 Word Guild Annual Awards under the category Castle Quay Best New Canadian Manuscript (@TheWordGuild).

Awards ceremony Sep. 14.

Keeping my fingers crossed.

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The walk along this hallway would soon become routine, but today was the first to this desert destination (https://t.co/oo507qDbP3).

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The burden of my choice weighed heavily. An impulse decision to help an aged friend had landed me in a desert landscape riddled with desert guilt. https://t.co/H5Mz9Tk64O

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The diversion from our desert drive to a pharmacy was the dawning of my worst fear. Without a POA, we had no authority to get her medication. (https://t.co/1hXcjQdUYq).

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Desert Luck: “Okay, I got lucky. At least we have one good thing happening in this pandemic.” It was desert luck (https://t.co/fr6XVVhbjd).

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Desert Decision: She couldn’t live alone, nor return to her beloved apartment and former independence. It was time for a desert decision (https://t.co/IVi0cFE2CG).

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Desert Dementia: Deprived of shelter and water in a desert journey, lost people hallucinate. Minds deteriorate and perceptions dim to desert dementia. https://t.co/Ogwgnmg2kr

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Desert Strangers: For door’s soundly shut, we needed God’s grace. We were desert strangers, in a strange land, during a strange time (https://t.co/SrkHpEBMQo).

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Desert Grace: It’s not like we had a definitive plan. There was no clear-cut direction to help my mother’s ninety-one-year-old friend; no desert grace to guide us on a desert journey (https://carolinmparadis/2024/02/18/desert-grace/).

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Desert Journey - Carolin M. Paradis (https://t.co/ahDJDtY43o) Desert Journey: An entrenched belief in her personal infallibility had ignored plans for old age; a desperate phone call launches a desert journey (https://t.co/nvGyfyQbVW).

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Lenten Newsletter 2021 - *|Adding #meditation to #Lenten spiritual practices distils #distractions; mirrors Jesus' desert walk. Less is more. https://t.co/JWZo2HXhXS |*

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Lent Outed: With a surfeit of #pandemic #abstinence, what more is there to give up at #Lent?

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Death Distilled: Forced quietude reclaims the perspective of #eternity, distills #death, and springs free #Pandemic panic. https://t.co/u1nPLdlC1H

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#Unpredictable turmoil settles when we dig deep into the well of love. Anticipating the Unpredictable: https://t.co/bXXyit0o0c

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Cracking the COVID Touch https://t.co/PHDCfm5G33

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It is through human interactions steeped in love where threads of #joy weave and bind one heart to another. Threads of Joy. https://t.co/0OVCSAG6Ui

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That’s where I have arrived...at a #decision. The winds of time have blown out; time to re-calibrate and course correct. A Time to Decide https://t.co/3omfqPlMH9