Personal reflections on my life and experiences.
It’s early Friday morning and I am sitting at a corner table in a coffee shop near downtown. Peppy indie music floats down from the ceiling level speakers. Periodically, customers enter and exit the shop as the barista works through a line stacked two deep. It will get more busy as the sun rises...
Read more →Earlier this month, I saw a trailer for the movie “Spotlight”, and from the gritty, fast moving cuts in the commercial, I knew it looked like my kind of movie. I mean, Michael Keaton. How can you not like a film with Michael Keaton? And Mark Ruffalo? After playing an Olympic wrestler in “Foxcatcher”...
Read more →Last night, terrorists attacked 6 targets in Paris, including a restaurant, a concert hall, and a sports stadium, killing 128 (recognized so far) and wounding some 350 others. In the concert hall alone, the attackers stood on balconies and indiscriminately picked off 100 people below. The American metal band playing there somehow got out...
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A week ago or so, I was talking to a good friend about her dating life. She had been dating a great guy for the last 5 months or so, and then the picture incident happened, and everything changed. Basically, after being a couple for months, after the many times they had publicly exchanged...
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It’s the eve before my 47th birthday, and tonight was spent pretty nicely. A few weeks ago my sister invited me to go to a cardio boxing class she enjoys. I went to a first class three weeks ago, and I went again tonight, for a fifth time. I enjoy the classes for the...
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“And as a few strokes on the nose will make a puppy head shy, so a few rebuffs will make a boy shy all over. But whereas a puppy will cringe away or roll on its back, groveling, a little boy may cover his shyness with nonchalance, with bravado, or with secrecy. And once...
Read more →Tonight I just wanted to celebrate my brother Tim. In three days, Tim will finally board a plane and leave Albuquerque to head halfway around the world- back to his country, back to his family, back to his new life in Melbourne. Over the last three and some years, I’ve been lucky enough to...
Read more →I had to make this my song of the day today because I play this video over and over. These guys are just sick talented. The whole song is incredible, but mostly, the first soaring flare of “I’m at a payphone…” won’t get out of my head and just keeps calling me back over...
Read more →NOTE: Today’s post is a little graphic. Morgue thoughts ahead… Hop off here if a little fluids talk gets to you. Today during our usual afternoon chat at work, my boss Tim was telling me about a book he’s been reading that he’s enjoyed. Written by Iceland author Arnuldar Indridason, “Jar City” is a...
Read more →I don’t know. Maybe it’s just the way I am. Or I’ve always been this way. The great transition has started, I guess. Last weekend was the first weekend of our church meeting in its new facilities. Last weekend was the first weekend that I took a complete sabbatical day off. Last week, I...
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I mentioned last post that I had made a decision to step away from service at church for a bit. A bit of fatigue certainly contributed to the decision. I think feeling overwhelmed with a lot of noise from life is another. I ended up being so involved trying to be a good servant...
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It’s odd. After a cool spring tempered by frequent rain, with the dawning of June, it’s like summer woke up and turned the heat lamp on. Over Memorial weekend, it felt to me that that shift arrived, and with it, my energy stalled. It’s been a weird transition of sorts. For the last three...
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A busy work day after a long Memorial Day weekend, I was grateful it was interrupted midday by a lunch appointment with Steve. I was lost in space driving over to the downtown Monroe’s on Lomas when I realized I had drove past it on Central, and then made a long detour north up...
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It’s been a challenge, but I am at the place right now where I need to speak up, and to put down. After some 3 and a half years at church, setting up every Sunday morning and tearing down every Sunday afternoon, and trying to lead a small group one night a week, I...
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This morning as I was getting around, I thought about an old friend. Well, old friend probably isn’t quite right- he was a childhood friend I was close to for probably two years. I imagine at the time, I was one of his friends, but I think for me, he was one of my...
Read more →It’s been a while, and because of that fact, I appreciate the efforts of my birthday twin and childhood friend Kristy Cole Holliday (“Prone to Wander”), and my boss Tim Price (Tim Price’s “Photo of the Day, Etc.”), who each make it their goal to post one entry a day. They both stay at...
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