When we look closely, what do we see? Colors, images, layers in sight, inside, outside, what’s actually there? What’s imagined? When we consider things repeatedly, over and over again, what do we find? What deeper meaning? What better understanding? Or do we allow ourselves to get lost? Lost in thought, muddled, searching in vain...? I’m …
Category: marriage
Stream, Pandemic Life: Indoor Camp, Week Review
Just like that, another week on the books. And not just any week: a Pandemic Week. A Distance Learning Week, WHEW, what a week. Campsite. Fuel. Classroom. Organization. Motivation. Downtime.
The Next Right Thing
Pretty frickin’ powerful lyric for a cartoon “kids” movie. Learning the lessons young, amen to that. "The Next Right Thing" (from "Frozen 2" soundtrack) I've seen dark before But not like this This is cold This is empty This is numb The life I knew is over The lights are out Hello, darkness I'm ready …
I’ve Heard It Said
I’ve heard it said that children at some point begin to resist what their parents have to say. This behavior is maybe obvious for adolescent-age kids, but it could happen at any age I suppose. Well, that reality has now arrived in my life. And our oldest daughter is nine years old. We're into Distance …
Faith and Trust
What do I really believe it comes down to when all is said and done? When the last step, the last breath is taken? Faith in God whatever He or She is; trust that good and light will follow, however that is. This I think is fundamental; this is what Paul wrote about to the …
Friday, Two Minute Catch Up
Lately I’ve had my daily piece written and scheduled (at least) the night before. Not today. School underway for our kids, distance learning, shitty conditions outside with a heat wave and wild fires in the hills nearby and pandemic life, and...it all caught up with me this time. So a two minute post from the …
A New Way
Striving, searching, thinking about a new path. How to proceed, how to behave, how to think about it all? We walk a path, we work hard to get in the groove. We find the pace, the manner to step, we get comfortable with the features along the way. And then inevitably, at some point, things …
Heart to Heart
“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 …
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 …
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