• LifeStuff

    Personal reflections on my life and experiences.

    A Bungled Break and Outsidedness

    by  • January 1, 2012 • LifeStuff • 0 Comments

    It’s Sunday night, January 1, 2012, the second-to-last night of my break from work and for the holidays, in which some 8 days have slid past, and I feel frustrated.  Frustrated that I feel I didn’t accomplish anything over these days off.  Frustrated that I didn’t go snowboarding this break, like I had planned...

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    Seeing the Lighthouse

    by  • December 29, 2011 • LifeStuff • 0 Comments

    It has been a good week so far this week taking a break in life, getting some time off from the job and being able to work on some projects at home and get caught up on chores.  Every year between Christmas and New Years, my life takes on a deeper tone of reflection...

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    Christmas 2011

    by  • December 26, 2011 • LifeStuff • 1 Comment

    It was a good Christmas this year. Christmas Eve, I was happy to spend some time with my extended family, Wendy and Eric and Zach, along with Eric’s brother and their collective horde of dachshunds and dachshund derivatives.  I had hoped to watch something Christmasy with someone this Christmas, and they came through with “It’s A...

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    O Christmas Tree!

    by  • December 22, 2011 • LifeStuff • 0 Comments

    A gift from my running buddy, Kurt, Son of Thor, and his wife.  Kurt asked me if I had any holiday decor up in the old casa.  I told him “No.”  He thought that wasn’t right.  His wife made this little tree for me.  Little gifts mean a lot, don’t they?  Thanks, guys! Consider...

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    Stay In The Game

    by  • December 12, 2011 • LifeStuff • 0 Comments

    Tonight, I finished the evening watching two more episodes of the best sports drama series I have never seen, “Friday Night Lights.” Wrapping up season three via Netflix rentals, the Dillon Panthers make it to the State Finals game, and after a lethargic first-half of play, the Panthers make a courageous run to erase...

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    Home Improvements, Edition 1

    by  • December 11, 2011 • LifeStuff • 0 Comments

    It was a good weekend this weekend. On Saturday morning, our church campus was able to greet a throng of guests from the neighborhood, and we offered a Christmas Store, in which parents of financially-strapped families could pick out some gifts for their kids while their kids made some crafts. A Frito Pie lunch...

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    Shorted

    by  • December 9, 2011 • LifeStuff • 0 Comments

    A pet peeve: the cup of java you buy is not full.  I think I paid for a full cup.  If you don’t want me to have as much coffee as is supposed to be in the cup, then make the cup smaller.  I should be able to know how much coffee I will...

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    Courage, the Gateway to Love

    by  • December 6, 2011 • LifeStuff • 0 Comments

    Tonight I was thinking about love, and how if you want to be a good lover at all, you have to have courage.  You have to have courage, because inevitably, in any relationship you have where you care about someone, something is going to happen where either you or the other falls and fails,...

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    An Author, an Email, and an Altar

    by  • December 5, 2011 • LifeStuff • 0 Comments

    My good friend Wendy told me  two month ago about a book I needed to read. It was Don Miller’s “A Million Miles in a Thousand Years.”  She thought I could use it.  And she also told me when she read it, it made her think about me.  “It’s you”, she said.  I thought,...

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    I • Beginnings

    by  • November 30, 2011 • A Short History of Love • 0 Comments

    When I was in elementary school, I was pretty anonymous, and quiet. For at least the first year of it, I was considered developmentally challenged- well, at least by my parents, until they realized I wasn’t simply stupid, but just blind. I don’t remember a whole lot from elementary school specifically. I showed up....

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    SOTD: “Emily” by Dave Koz

    by  • November 29, 2011 • SOTD • 0 Comments

    In honor of my niece. I am now at the point with this song that I can recognize it when I hear it, and it makes me think of her. Both it and she are beautiful.