Personal reflections on my life and experiences.
This evening, I and my brother’s family took a nice trip to La Crosse to get dinner and to visit Walmart- and to delay my trip home a day and a half. I was supposed to fly back to Albuquerque this evening through Chicago via the La Crosse airport… and, the holidays hit again....
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I was supposed to be on the plane at 4:40 AM. That was the final boarding time for my flight to Dallas, the first leg of a day trip to get to Wisconsin to see my brother and his family. I awoke at 3 AM to get to the airport, 2 hours after I...
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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...
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