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Author: David Musser

  • Wake Me Up When September Ends — SEPTEMBER 2025

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    Hey friends,This has been a really hard month in the Musser household. I’m sure you can relate—sometimes life piles on so much all at once that you barely have time to catch your breath. As that famous saying goes, “When it rains how it pours, so hold on to your drawers. For a flood, it…

  • I Once Was Lost — AUGUST 2025

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    Howdy folks! A bit of house-keeping here. I will henceforth (until I die??) be sending out my monthly newsletters on the LAST Sunday of the month at 8:00AM EST. (just so you know what to expect from me). Clarity is kindness, as my wife loves to say. Also, this way, you can read it in…

  • Grief Reflections & Other Stories — JULY 2025

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    Hello again! Y’all, I gotta confess. I didn’t even realize until a couple of days ago that I sent my July newsletter with a JUNE heading (which kinda made sense because I was mostly recapping June…) So, now I have to send a 2nd July issue (smh… as the ‘youths’ would say). If you loved…

  • 🌱 Small Beginnings — JUNE 2025

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    Hey, friends. Welcome to the Journey. This is the very first issue of my band-spankin’-new monthly newsletter, and I’m so glad you’re here. Whether you’ve followed my story and writing for a while or we are just getting connected—thank you for inviting me into your inbox. 📌 In This Edition… 🖋 Behind the Scenes Back…

  • And The Darkness Comprehended It Not

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    Over Spring Break last month, I took the kids to Mammoth Cave. For those that don’t know, it’s the longest known natural cave system in the world—over 420 miles of intertwining network. We spent 4 hours hiking 250 feet below the Earth, covering just 4 miles of the system and taking on some 1,600+ stairs.…

  • Songs for Becky

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    Exodus 34:4-8So Moses cut two tablets of stone like the first. And he rose early in the morning and went up on Mount Sinai, as the Lord had commanded him, and took in his hand two tablets of stone. The Lord descended in the cloud and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the Lord. The Lord passed before him and proclaimed, “The Lord, the Lord,…

  • Choosing The ‘Life Narrative’ For My Daughter Living With Trisomy 18

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    Up until the last few years, Trisomy 13 and 18 have been among a few congenital syndromes that medical texts and experts deemed to be “incompatible with life.” It therefore has been a common practice for families and physicians facing this diagnosis to either choose abortions or to withhold certain medical interventions that would otherwise…

  • Christmas in…December?? (And Other Reflections on THREE Years of Caregiving (!!))

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    Y’all. It finally happened. Christmas in JulyDecember! Today was the day that we finally had our Sleep Safe Bed delivered! (after months of back and forth with insurances, social workers, providers, medical supply applications, medical supply personnel, decisions—endless phone calls (ie, waiting on hold, listening through queue after queue of not-actually-helpful robot answering services)—endless rigmarole…

  • Waiting…

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    It is one of those wet and dreary, grey autumn days. The kind of day that makes you want to curl up under a woolly knit blanket, sip on some Earl Grey tea, listen to Bon Iver, and attend to the rain and wind outside the window. Maybe it’s the changing of the season that…

  • Stillness

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    So, when was the last time you sat and flipped through an entire Where’s Waldo? book—finding Waldo, Wenda, Woof, Wizard Whitebeard, and Odlaw on each page before continuing on through the book? (Ok, Fine, we didn’t always find Odlaw…that sneaky little mustachioed devil…). I am guessing for most of you, it has been at least…