Stories By

Phyllis Cole-Dai

14 stories on DailyGood

A Pandemic Poem-Prayer

Phyllis Cole-Dai is a writer and poet, perhaps best known for 'The Emptiness of Our Hands', a spiritual memoir ...

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A Pandemic Letter to My 17-Year-Old Son

"Starting when you were just a toddler, you'd crawl into my lap to play a game. I'd lay hands on each part of your ...

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The Gentle Road Home

"Back before Christmas, I led a weekend retreat in California. At its close, one of the retreatants presented me ...

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A Bit of Heaven

"Let me tell you about Don. He's a retired DC firefighter, about to turn 89, living alone in his Maryland apartment. ...

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What You Get Into Will Change You

"Sometimes in life you just dont know what youre getting into. Youre reminded of this, the day you kayak through an ...

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I Am One of Everybody

"This bright red coat warms me in winter not only because of what it's made from but also because of what its ...

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The Dugnad in Our Dna

Traditionally, dugnad (a Norwegian word) refers to "the collective effort of individual Norwegians who sacrifice ...

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The Clarinet in the Attic

"Pat and Peter went together to the doctor's appointment. In their eighties, theyd been married over sixty years. ...

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On This Our World Turns

"Imagine that you are born into poverty.Imagine that, during your grade school years, a teacher recognizes your ...

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Picture a Face

"Your phone rings in the middle of the night. As you reach blindly to answer, do you fear that someone you love has ...

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What Could Keep You Warmer Than This?

Recently DailyGood featured "I Am Everybody," an inspiring post by author Phyllis Cole-Dai, in which she shared the ...

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The Secret of Blooming

"The sun's setting fast. You hurry, wanting to get home before dark. But as you stroll past a humble house fringed ...

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I Want to Play

"I work hard. Sometimes too hard. I even work hard at play. Perhaps you suffer the same affliction. Call it ...

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How Do You Be?

"'How are you?' Back before the pandemic, when you and I would greet other people by asking this question, we ...

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