“Then Jesus told His disciple, ‘If anyone would come after Me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow Me.'” – Matthew 16:24 There was a time when I read that verse, and it was a shield to me. I knew what it was to close my eyes to my ego,...
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It had been bad for a while, but I guess in the mid-1770’s it got really bad. From 1772 to 1776, a drought seized Nuevo Mexico, and thin food and water resources became even more scarce in the desolate territory. For those Spaniard colonists who took a chance and settled north of the Sonora...
Read more →Come join the community of the beloved Do you know the liturgy? You mouth the words so eloquently Certainly you must be elevated I will let you socialize with me We say the Words and sing the songs And we are wise and righteous You are free to join us Now here, may I...
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Jeff and Juliette were kind enough to let Chris Payton and I use their cabin for a second time in four years, so we jumped on the opportunity and drove up to Cowles this weekend, which is about 20 miles north of Pecos. The home of two small fishing ponds, several trailheads, a guest...
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When the chips are down, or we get tired and we need respite, most people have their go-to goodness. Mine are probably not that different from the escapes many others take. Food is a main favorite. Tacos please. Most anything with sugar. Stuff I don’t have to work much to make. TV. Baseball games....
Read more →I was lucky last year. A devoted follower of a sports team that had not been in a league championship game in 71 years, and that had not won the league championship in 108 years, I was able to shed the immense weight of being someone who embraced a sports team that was known...
Read more →The John Wick films are dark films. In film one, Wick, played by Keanu Reeves, is a hitman who retired from heavy dirty work because he found love. He met a woman who changed him, and gave him a reason to leave the raw, ugly underworld he had made a life in. Wick had...
Read more →Walking through Walmart tonight, I passed by an employee who smelled like cigarette smoke and tobacco, and for a moment, I was small and back in Kansas, inching up the thinly-slabbed concrete sections of the walk from the parking port behind the house in the alley towards the tall white home. The air is...
Read more →so glad I brought this coffee today like every day I am at work the browser is open what are the Cubs doing why did Fowler leave didn’t he want to win another one Mom loves Bryant that’s funny because most women love Bryant the lean MVP hitter Rizzo is still my favorite love...
Read more →When I joined the GoodReads book community a few years back, I discovered the website’s Reading Challenge app at one point, and decided when the new year rolled around, I would hop in and set a goal. Basically, GoodReads lets you set a goal of how many books you are going to read within...
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It’s Sunday evening, and as I look back on the weekend, I did a lot of what I often do, which is not much. I did enjoy watching two of three Lobo baseball games played against the Air Force Academy up in Colorado Springs. The scores of the three games, all won by UNM,...
Read more →It’s Saturday morning, and I am out of creativity for this week, so for today’s post, it’s just “whatever” stuff this morning. I tried to be a little more creative in my writing exercises this week, and as with most of my writings, I wasn’t super thrilled with the results. I started another short...
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In 1351, a year after the Black Death finally let go of the village of Nérac and its surrounding estates in southwest France, a gentle young monk named Colinus went through the ravaged region and collected every orphan he could find, bringing them back to live by his brothers in Orphan Hall. In a...
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Transcription, Captain’s Log, USS Bozeman, NCC-1941 “Captain’s Log, Stardate 41114.4. We are running at warp 6 to rendezvous with the science vessel SS Brezhnev which has been routinely monitoring the collapse of a yellow midget star into a white dwarf. Unfortunately, our efforts to approach the craft and system have been marred by the...
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Last Saturday, as I meandered south from Albuquerque, I ended up driving the main drag through Socorro, New Mexico, and as I passed through an intersection, I looked to my right and saw the face and bell towers of a mission church. I am unable to resist the pull of such New Mexican cathedrals,...
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