When times get tough, focus on the little things. Feeling overwhelmed, not sure what to do next? Do something simple, little, maybe even trivial, to make a little progress, and make things a little better. Today I attacked a couple weed lines that have been growing in the sidewalk cracks for months. MONTHS. It took …
Category: Happy
What Does It Mean?
There are lots of ways to interpret things, often times. Different people look at the same painting, listen to the same song, consider a particular situation or opportunity that arises, or decision that is needed, and have different takes. It's a mixed bag at best. Some times those differences can seem vast. Sometimes those differences …
Juxtapose
Side by side we go through life. So many different ways this plays out, consider these few. Unless we choose the hermitic life, we strive to live with others. Friends, colleagues, even strangers, we go through this world side by side. If we're lucky, there's even that ONE special, other person with whom we share …
Pivot
This word has been around a long time. So the dictionary says, it's about four hundred years old, from around 1605–15; < French pivot (noun), pivoter (v.), Old French < ? It means among other things, as a noun, a pin, point, or short shaft on the end of which something rests and turns, or upon and about which …
Lyrics Post: “You Will Be Found”
Brought to you by... Ben Platt, Kristolyn Lloyd, Will Roland, Laura Dreyfuss & Original Broadway Cast Of Dear Evan Hansen Lyrics soundtrack) I don't think I've listened to this song once without having a tear or two dripping down my face... [EVAN:]Have you ever felt like nobody was there?Have you ever felt forgotten in the …
Taxed
Most often when we talk about taxes it's the fiscal kind, the kind imposed by government on its people to raise revenue for services. "Taxed" comes to mind in a similar fashion now as we head into the second month of the COVID-19 Sequester, "sheltering - in - place", hunkered down trying to take care …
Find the Way
Find the way. That's what they had to do after they find the empty tomb. There was confusion and joy and disbelief and uncertainty. And so they had to find the way through all that to the next right thing. Let us not only take heart in the hope of The Ressurection; let us also be …
Risen
My anticipation, on the rise. My appreciation, on the rise. My simple joy, on the rise. My expectation, on the rise. My creativity, on the rise. My discretion, on the rise. My acceptance, on the rise. My happiness with now, on the rise. My humor, on the rise. My awareness, on the rise. My hope, …
Paschal, Wood
Easter is a curious time. As a believer I’ve often struggled to find proper respect for the Passion; I’ve found the Resurrection similarly challenging at times. The Paschal Mystery is indeed well, mysterious to me. At different times, and different years, I've felt varying degrees of success and failure at connecting with this season. This …