Boiling life down into bite-size bits and basic ideas we can learn and hold on to day-in, day-out? Might just be a superpower secret to living a good and happy life. These are concepts we should not only live by everyday, but pass along to those around us, especially our children, if we have them. …
Category: attitude
Remember Your Tools
What lessons, what lessons? There are always new things to learn, old things to remember. When doing inventory work, here are the basics you should have, beyond your digital or paper reference: 1/ pen 2/ marker 3/ blade (to open the box). 4/ packing tape, tape gun (to close said box). Be methodical; always methodical. …
Do or Do Not.
“Do or do not, there is no try.” So Yoda said to Luke Skywalker during his initial Jedi training. Silly language from a muppet character in a sci-fi movie? Maybe. But there’s also some essential wisdom to be had. I know first hand. “I’ll try...” has been a central tenet of my effort just about …
Jesuit Martyrs of El Salvador
Quoting James Martin, S.J., as we remember these brave men and women who were murdered 30 years ago this weekend, because they stood for social justice, social change for the people. "These men and women paid the ultimate price for standing with the poor and marginalized in the name of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. …
Gettaway
Lucky for the little things. Lucky to be married to a great human, smart and patient and beautiful and thoughtful. Eleven years married, a mark we just passed. And so we’ve got a little gettaway planned. Nothing fancy, but it happens to be my favorite format: short escape to a place not far away, but …
Is This What it Means to be White?
Two white journalists consider their journey, exploring the murder of a white minister by group of white men in the segregated deep south of Alabama, United States, in 1965. #gratitude @chipbrantley @andrewbeckgrace https://www.npr.org/about-npr/719940814/white-lies-nprs-civil-rights-cold-case-podcast-solves-who-what-killed-james-reeb one.npr.org/i/776399329:776566928
What We Do, Redeux
Just a couple days ago, I had a post entitled "What We Do." Well, here a slightly different take — I'm revisiting that title again. Busy weekend finished up with Sunday afternoon grocery run, and then between the wife and me, putting three new dishes together for dinner. We worked well together in our little …
A Foundation of Grace
One of the readings for the weekend is from 1 Corinthians, Chapter 3. In the passage, Paul writes about how he, with God's grace, has laid a foundation for the believers in Corinth, and how additional layers would be laid upon that foundation. He also draws the parallel to the temple, how each of us, …
What We Do
What do we do when we’re married? What do we do when we’re parents? What do we do after a long day, a long week? We take care of business, that’s what we do. We go to the practice, we wash the dishes, we’re sociable, even if maybe we’re not feeling it. Who knows, it …
7
Our son just turned seven years old, had me thinking about 7 times 77 times 777 things around him, around me, around everything under heaven. So grateful I am he’s in our lives, so grateful to have this life with him, her, them. Then I ponder my path, crooked and bumpy and blessed, messed up …
