Blessings
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dive deeper
pleasure in food, even during strife, seems prescient
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termites’ demise
if only I could turn the whole structure inside out
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terrestrial pleasures
collect the forbidden – the “stuff”
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In Between
Once you leave In Between from “was” to “is” only memory can really take you back.
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Blessings and Breakage – Thoughts on Christmas and 2017
Blessings and breakage live perilously close to one another. At times, blessings and breakage intertwine, to the point where you often can’t tell one from the other, if, in fact, they are not already one and the same.
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What am I DOING here?
I have long had a personal distate for the interview question, “Where do you see yourself 5 years from now?” and my wife will also tell you I have a general aversion to goal-setting as a rule. It’s not that I am afraid to set or commit to a goal, it’s just that so often where…
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When You Start, it’s Just a Pile of Wood.
In order to become something useful or beautiful, that pile of wood has to go through a transformative process that only a true woodworker understands. And for this craftsman, that process becomes very personal, with the wood an extension or representation of myself, going through life, going from a pile of wood, to becoming something…
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Count Your Blessings?
To start the new year, one of things my church is doing is having each of us pull a star from a basket with a word on it and asking us to adopt it as our “word of the year” on which to meditate, study, reflect, etc. (the first one I pulled didn’t have a word…
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Caveats
I make no claim of being more correct than another in theology or orthodoxy, and in no way will I intend to belittle or judge anyone else’s theology, orthodoxy, or lack thereof.
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Yep. Life is Still Messy
Who I am today is still a work in progress. I think I’ve finally realized I will always be in progress, and accepting that is freeing me to sit at my laptop and tell you (and myself) where I’ve been and where I am, even if that means admitting I DON’T HAVE IT ALL FIGURED…
