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Collective Joy, Collective Pain: Reflections on April at the Sycamore House
I spent the first week of April making a mental pro-con list from hell. I cried myself to sleep nightly. Called my boyfriend in tears...
Emily
Jul 16, 20203 min read
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Best Laid Plans: Reflections on March at the Sycamore House
It goes without saying that March did not go at all how any of us expected it to. Jokes were tossed around that no one anticipated giving...
Emily
Jul 14, 20204 min read
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Prisons of our Own Making: Reflections on February at the Sycamore House
Prisons of our Own Making: Reflections on February at the Sycamore House "Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place...
Emily
Apr 10, 20207 min read
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Making Goals and Failing at Them: Reflections on January at the Sycamore House
I blacked out during the first program that I hosted for my new job. There is a span of time where I know I was running the program but I...
Emily
Mar 13, 20203 min read
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When the World is on Fire and You are a Drop in a Bucket: Reflections on December at Sycamore House
This past December my housemate Faith and I participated in an international campaign called Dressember. We each committed to wearing a...
Emily
Mar 7, 20203 min read
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Discerning Vocation and Parking Tickets: A Reflection on November at the Sycamore House
There’s a song lyric from a hymn I remember from several churches ago that says, “We are called to act with justice, we are called to...
Emily
Jan 12, 20204 min read
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A Letter in Support of the Transgender Community
In the past month there have two incidences of hate speech towards transgender populations that have caught my attention and impacted my...
Emily
Jan 5, 20204 min read
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This House is Haunted: A Reflection on October at the Sycamore House
I’m convinced our house is haunted. On Halloween night there was a very noisy thunderstorm outside. The downstairs heater was...
Emily
Jan 5, 20203 min read
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The Danger of a Single Story
“You can’t change history” “I’m so sorry, Virginia really is such a beautiful state” “Where you there when everything happened?” “Don’t...
Emily
Oct 6, 20195 min read
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If you gotta start somewhere why not here...
I used to love the Christian artist TobyMac. I would listen the album Tonight, over and over. One of the more popular songs from that...
Emily
Sep 2, 20196 min read
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