“Dad, can I talk to you outside,” said our youngest kid to me last weekend. We were camping in the backyard, tent set up for the three kids and me. Our son and I had just gotten into it — he’s seven, the middle kid — and he as lying on the tent floor crying …
Category: Insight
Reaching, Seeking, Being
It’s fundamental, really, all readings aside. Or maybe it’s every Bible reading, every Quran reading, every Tanahk reading too. Maybe they all have the same basic guidance. Reach to be better. Seek the lessons from before, and now. Be better. Every day. If religion was that simple, if humans perceived a better path in those …
These Words
These words we say, these words we sing, these words we share, They seek to explain the thoughts we have, the feelings inside, the struggles and pain, the hopes and the love, These words, they make us different perhaps, from every other animal on the face of the earth. When we are unsure, when we …
Lyrics Post: “RESIST”
A song that might be below the radar for casual listeners of the Canadian band; however, RUSH Heads, true believers know the tune for sure. If you ever went to a show after this song came out, the band often played it as part of the set. What to resist? So many things might fall …
This Space
This space where we spend time gives me peace. Dark and cramp, in a tent in a backyard campsite. Simple slumber on the ground with our children, their quiet breathing and bodies shifting position as they sleep. This quiet time and place gives me peace. Thankful for this time and place. So simple, necessary during …
Edge
This word rolling through my head, several images, thoughts coming to mind. EDGE. Hmm, maybe it's the opposite: Several images, thoughts rolling through my head, and this word comes to mind. Another dinner gone sideways, everyone animated about things mostly other than the plate of food in front of them. Stumble, struggle through -- I …
In Parallel
One of my favorite concepts from geometry, imagery still floats in my head all these years, decades later. Parallel lines drawn with a ruler and pencil, precision work. Must have my dad's influence when I was a kid; he was a math teacher. I think of "parallel" in other context: Often we work in parallel …
12 days of Christmas and the Last Weekend Before School Starts
The kids and I, we’ve been camping in the back yard every weekend since the 4th of July. It’s been great fun. I’m delighted they say “Yes!” every weekend I’ve asked them if they want to do it again. It’s a great example of their maturity, dealing with the sounds and mild discomfort and sometimes …
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Lyrics Post: “Here and Heaven”
Just what is it, a Goat Rodeo? According to a Slang Dictionary, “A goat rodeo is a slang term for something going totally, unbelievably, disastrously wrong, and there’s nothing left to do but to sit back and watch the trainwreck. In other words, a goat rodeo is a chaotic situation, fiasco, or, more vulgarly, a …
Mindset: COVID
Like living with cancer. LIVING WITH CANCER. Acceptance. It sometimes does not go away. Sometimes we have to live with it. Like this pandemic. Living with COVID. All the new realities. Like cancer: accept; evaluate; adjust; go forward. GO FORWARD. This life is meant to be lived; this life is meant to be experienced; live …
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