The exciting and odd experience of the day occurred this morning as I drove to work. When I left the house and headed to west, I noticed the mountains were behind a low bank of fog. I got on Wyoming and headed north, and got on Paseo and headed east to the freeway, and...
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It was a good day for a Monday for the most part. I ate Blake’s burrito for breakfast, drank a raspberry mocha, drank 3 bottles of water at work, skipped lunch, and then ate some tacos for dinner tonight. The tacos part was interesting because an hour before dinner, I had been in the...
Read more →I’ve probably been going to New Covenant Church (NCC) for nearly two months now, with a few Sunday services missed for several reasons- reasons which have had little to do with apathy. I started attending there for several reasons after a prolonged layoff from church attendance. For one, I wanted to go back to...
Read more →Tonight, I just want to congratulate my sister and her husband on twenty five years as spouses. In this world of instant dinners and ultra recyclables, when a couple survives 5 years- aye, 7, past the “itch”- they are heralded as stable. But storms still come. Ten years, and they are a strong couple....
Read more →Tonight, while most of the rest of the country went to see the newest installment of the Star Wars series, I went to see “Lady Bird”, the writing and directing project of “usually the actress” Greta Gerwig. The film is autobiographical of Gerwig’s hgh school years, when, growing up in Sacramento, California, all she...
Read more →I’m nearing the end of Hillerman’s memoir, and he has some good material on his life and experiences as an author. Now, his life as an author was heavily influenced not only by his adventures as a younger man, but also by his regimen as a journalist. Called consistently to report on issues related...
Read more →Tonight I just reflect on how tenuously connected I feel to beloved people so often. I think about Robert, who was kind of like me, looking for someone he could anchor with after he gave up drinking and sleeping with women, and I was his friend- some times better than others- until he the...
Read more →“When they came to the border of Mysia, they tried to enter Bithynia, but the Spirit of Jesus would not allow them to.” -Acts 16:7 This was not the first “No” Paul received on this missionary journey. A verse earlier, we read that Paul and Timopthy had also been denied entry to preach in...
Read more →I was texting a little with Spriggs tonight, and he asked the question, “If you were a pastor or leader, how would you measure success in your ministry?” It’s a good question, and I suppose, in some ways, it’s a very American question, as success is historically an American preoccupation. Not that there is...
Read more →Today was a pretty good day, despite the fact my back has really bothered me all weekend. My back is weak, and that’s all there is too it, and the fact I don’t try to strengthen it and spend most every day sitting doesn’t help it much. But when you can’t move from lying...
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It is 12 until midnight, and I am at the end of another day, forcing up another post before the clock rolls over into a new day. I know, come January, I will free myself of the requirement to post something everyday on here like I have tried to do this year. Much of...
Read more →“Poverty is not the absence of money, but the absence of possibilities. The absence of hope. When someone loses hope, poverty has won. The opposite of poverty is ‘enough’.” – Conversation with Spriggs
Read more →After work, I went home and took a nice quiet nap this evening and then went to my sister’s, where we finished roasting the last of the chile crop. We ended up with 6 snack bags of chopped mild pepper, and 2 snack bags of the hotter peppers minced up. It was the coldest...
Read more →I don’t have a lot tonight. Enjoyed dinner out with my sister’s sons last night, and out with my folks tonight. I keep going back to Hillerman’s bio, because every time I listen to it, I get something new from him to think about. After Hillerman was discharged from the army and the war...
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The last few nights I have tried to use some time after work to try and understand how to take a twilight photograph when the camera is in manual mode. Monday evening’s efforts were very crude because I basically dove into the activity pretty uninformed- and when I really wanted to get a nice,...
Read more →Honestly, I think my favorite part of the last few days has been when I have been driving around and, consequently, listening to the Tony Hillerman memoir. The book has been especially interesting at this point in the story because Hillerman is nineteen and wandering around in France and Germany as a grunt, an...
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