Personal reflections on my life and experiences.
Maybe I just lack scientific creativity. Maybe I don’t understand science. Or maybe I just don’t understand the endgame of postmodern thinking. Tim let me know today that after the Whanganui River in New Zealand was granted personhood last week- with a whole sphere of legal benefits given to it as a human- several...
Read more →Hearing this afternoon that Sports Illustrated had a new issue coming out soon with Cub’s phenom and NL MVP Kris Bryant on the cover, I visited the Barnes & Noble website to get the phone number to a store here in town in my sort-of neighborhood. I had to ask Jeff the Magazine Guy...
Read more →It was a pretty good day today. I ate fairly cleanly for once, not diving into the candy store at work in mid-afternoon. I ate my breakfast at home before I left for work. Greg next door at Cafe Espresso gifted me a carne burrito this morning, so I ate it for lunch. And...
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Miscellaneous thoughts from today: • There is that smell in the house again. It smells like something moist in the walls. It’s so random. Maybe it is just me. • I’ve kind of lost an interest in Facebook. Just nothing compelling on it for me any more. I don’t connect well with people through...
Read more →It was a month or so ago when Brett, my sister’s eldest son, nonchalantly made the announcement to his mother. “Mom, I have a girlfriend.” And, like that, Brett had entered the universe of love and dating. The high schooler, without fanfare, was in a relationship. Wow. Easy peasy. It happens. Who knows why,...
Read more →I’m not an astronomer. Ask me to find the Big Dipper for you on any given night, and I’d be lost. I never know if the bright one in the twilight sky is Venus or Mars or Saturn, if you asked me. I’d probably guess Venus, but I don’t really know for sure. However,...
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“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...
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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,...
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