Personal reflections on my life and experiences.
I met a friend for dinner last week after work one night, and as I was driving up Menaul towards the mountains, I decided I had listened to the CD in the CD player enough for the last two weeks and I flipped over to the FM channels. I fast-forwarded through a few stations...
Read more →But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.” ~Matthew 9:13 I was walking to lunch earlier this week, just thinking about life, observing people passing by me on the sidewalk, and cars driving by in the road near work....
Read more →Despite the fact the calendar said it was Halloween eve this evening, it was really just another night to watch baseball, and I was grateful after work to be able to go enjoy dinner and visit with my parents for a while before Game 6 of the World Series kicked off. This game, like...
Read more →Unable to climb out from under whatever was sitting on me tonight, I put on the movie “Invincible”, the Disney film about 31-year Philadelphia bartender and part-time school teacher Vince Papale who walked on to the Eagles when new head coach Dick Vermiel held an open tryout in the summer of 1976. Papale, who...
Read more →When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. ~ I Corinthians 13:11 It’s funny that this verse has been on my mind the last week or so. I am...
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I felt this was adequate for today’s post. The message remains solid. “Good enough’s not good enough Don’t complain that you’ve got it tough With all you have your life’s a bore Can’t relax you want so much more Blind needs won’t set you free Can’t you see that Time is slipping away But...
Read more →I have thoroughly enjoyed seeing my nephews grow up a little bit at a time in their school activities. When my sister’s eldest was in school, he was in drama for a while, and it was great to see him on stage, growing from a kid to a young adult. In the last few...
Read more →I was grateful tonight to go out and walk with my sister on the trails in the foothills at the east end of Spain Road. By the time we were a decent distance from the access parking lot, the sunset to the west was fading, and shadows were melding with the charcoal luminescence of...
Read more →This morning at work, to quell the mood of a Monday, I put my earphones on and fired up Pandora to listen to my Dave Koz station. And for a moment, I was back in Marin County. I was in a cool fall evening, in a moment when the sky was a deepening purple...
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I was able to finish David Ross’s memoir “Teammate” today, which was a nice treat on a quiet Sunday morning. After sleeping in a little while early after what felt like a long week, I put on some slippers and after I made some coffee, sat in the sunlight on the back porch and...
Read more →It’s 11:30 PM, and I am back at it. The TV is on to ESPN 2- the Lobo football team, after a blowout loss to Fresno State last weekend (38-0), is hanging around, trying to catch Colorado State. It’s late in the 4th, and CSU just went up ten on a field goal kick....
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It’s the middle of the fourth inning in game five of the series between the Cubs and the Dodgers. It’s a game where, if the Cubs won, they would prolong their season another day, and where if the Dodgers won, they would be heading to the 2017 World Series. It’s 9-0 Los Angeles right...
Read more →Tonight I boycotted a Lobo men’s soccer match against UCLA after work to sit through what might have been the final game of the season for the Cubs. I felt it was my duty to watch the game, despite the fact the Cubs were down 3-0 in a 4 game series to the Dodgers....
Read more →You drew the plan and chose the lot and leveled the earth and tore out the trees and laid the slab and placed the pipes and raised the walls and spaced the windows and mulled the materials and set the roof and attached the shingles and picked each door and painted each room and...
Read more →It took me 15 minutes to decide to drive over. Once I was in the lot in front of the bar, it took me another 15 minutes to work up the nerve to go in. I don’t know why. These are people I went to high school with, old classmates. These are people I’ve...
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