Samples
Song Parody for US Bank to the tune of Surfin’ USA
Sample Websites: Namaste Works Bear Valley Church (home page)
Writing Sample from Jean Hoefling’s Great Lent Unplugged
…No recipe so captures the essence of Lent as does the ever-popular Potato-On-a-Plate. Here in the steaming spud rolling about alone on a stark white plate is a powerful metaphor for the humble Lenten soul, with God alone its expectation. God of course is represented by the life-giving parsley. see more
Writing Sample from Jean Hoefling’s Journey to God
Crampons spark against rock in the darkness before dawn as we grind over scree above Camp Muir. The sun climbs. I unzip my chartreuse parka; I am too hot yet not warm enough in the fever of overexertion. The morning is too bright, filtering into an eerie aquamarine slash of crevasse that looms deep as we edge across an ice bridge. We traverse an infinite snowfield pocked with sun cups. The grip of the ice axe brings spasms to my numbed hands; trail mix is gravel in my mouth. The world grows narrow– too narrow.
When I know there is nothing left, I stop inching toward the summit in the garish morning. There is no summit, no ascent or descent. There is only the endless mountain against a nightmare of blue-black sky. The narrow fades to gray. see more
Writing Sample from Jean Hoefling’s Great Lent Unplugged
…No recipe so captures the essence of Lent as does the ever-popular Potato-On-a-Plate. Here in the steaming spud rolling about alone on a stark white plate is a powerful metaphor for the humble Lenten soul, with God alone its expectation. God of course is represented by the life-giving parsley.
You have only to boil a potato for each dining participant and distribute them among the dinner plates. An austere sprinkling of salt completes the Spartan presentation. The simplicity of this repast will so overwhelm family members that words will fail them. Instead, there will be wide-eyed wonder regarding the startlingly small dimensions of the meal, and cries of joy that parsley has been included. This will naturally bring all diners into a greater awareness of the need to simplify one’s life during the Lenten spring. It will also prompt a voracious search, once the potatoes have been eaten, for another source of calories. See More.
