Personal reflections on my life and experiences.
For the writer, one of the greatest tools in Resistance’s toolbox is reticence, and its perpetual challenge to one’s vulnerability. Reticence is a fantastic tool for Resistance because it keeps the writer perpetually self-monitoring and questioning their work- and in many cases, by highlighting where a particular admission or proclamation or illustration might open...
Read more →In a weekend of prolonged inner shadow, I sat down last night and finally opted to watch the Netflix movie I had had sitting around in the house since December 11, 2017: Silence. Sometimes I do that, for cloudy reasons- get a movie, and let it sit for months. In this case, I let...
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I was fortunate enough to have some time off available to burn at work, and an offering of generosity to nudge me to get me on the road the first weekend of March. About two weeks ago, a work colleague I talk regularly with about all kinds of sports let me know she and...
Read more →“All beginnings are hard.” So Chaim Potok begins his 1975 novel, “In the Beginning”. All beginnings are hard, but so are all endings. Yesterday, Tim’s 18 year-old cat, Rosencrantz, finally said goodbye after a pretty good run and a late fight with kidney issues. That’s a good age for a kitty. And being at...
Read more →If I had time off and the money, where would I go, someone asked me. Time off, and the money. I think about going quite a bit- mostly, I think, because I don’t. Fear has a way of needling me to stay put, to stay with the familiar, to stay where it is safe....
Read more →Basically my day was learning that the Corrs started recording again in 2015 after a ten year pause, and learning that Matt Scannell and Vertical Horizon had a new album coming out this week, and learning that Emily Blunt and John Krazinski have been married and have two kids, despite their careers, and having...
Read more →Church this morning was good. The pastor talked about service opportunities. The music featured an old hymn that I enjoyed. It also contained a modern song that had a verse like so: “You said, “Ask and I’ll give the nations to you” Oh, Lord, that’s the cry of my heart Distant shores and the...
Read more →When my dad was young, he said his mom used to send him to the store almost every day. The store was Smith’s, a family grocer across the street from Lincoln School. In those days, you had store credit, so his mother could ask him to go to store without money, and he could...
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Five years ago today, on February 23, 2013, the 16th-ranked UNM men’s basketball team, still under Steve Alford, headed to Colorado State’s Moby Arena for a first-place showdown with the #22 Rams. At 21-5, Colorado State had been surging and, just a game before, had enjoyed a six-game winning streak to tie New Mexico...
Read more →Every hero has a weakness. Every icon has a fault. Every human has failings. If you will revere a human, recognize that someone else just won’t. They’ll delight to find a flaw in your favorite and shout it around just to see him fall. It’s always easier to flatten giants by shouting facts about...
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As a child, I was raised as a Southern Baptist. As a young adult, he helped me to choose to remain one. He was above politicking and partisanship, above heavy-handedness and religious histrionics, above sensationalism and celebrity worship, above glad-handing and condescension. He loved God. He loved Christ his Savior. He loved the Gospel....
Read more →Clackety-clackety-clack. The train passes a long feild. A red barn and farmhouse sit angled toward each other at the back end of it. The white of a passing post is bright under the midday light. “Braden”, he says. “Braden.” In front of him, a large toddler lays mounted on top of the the green...
Read more →A friend of mine shared this quote post from Toby Mac with me today. It’s a good one, as Toby tends to circle around important ideas and make you stop and consider what you are doing in the big picture of life by his pithy saying at any given moment. I remember hearing (when...
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After yesterday’s slumfest, today wasn’t much better, although I was at least more productive and had a little more energy today. The aches in my shoulders and knees and hands remained, and I awoke with a slight headache this morning as well. And, I awoke a little too early. But I had had it...
Read more →Today I woke up not feeling to well, so it was a joy to roll over and sleep until about 11AM this morning. Sometimes you just need that. I was feeling achy and my head felt dull. When I got up, I maintained my need to do little today. I made some coffee. I...
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Today, I thoroughly appreciated being able to take a day off from work just for some personal down time, and I enjoyed the time away a great deal. It’s not that I did a whole lot. It’s more that there were some good memorable moments throughout the day. And the day started with a...
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