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To Live a Peaceful Life

When I was in my younger, mid-twenties, I took a miniature embroidery hoop and stretched needlepoint cloth into it. On a paper, I plotted out a simple phrase, and a cross, that loosely came from the book of I Timothy. I say loosely because I expressed, essentially, “Ahhh, to live a peaceful life…” changing the tense of the verb, implying personal aspiration. In those days, I had the patience to do counted cross-stitch. These days, that kind of handiwork would...