My goal this November was to replace TV and web surfing with, basically, reading. I surprised myself and finished 10 books in 29 days, which has to be a record for me. The last one I picked up to read was a nod to my heart, which at one time was so passionate about...
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Albuquerque was hit with a healthy heavy overnight snow last night, so my Thanksgiving Day today began with a quiet early morning walk up my street to take in the winter scene, followed by a visit to the vast white field of the Catholic cemetery adjacent to my neighborhood. This vivid little bouquet of...
Read more →Ernesto walked down in the shallow ravine next to the gravel road as the ancient pickup truck rattled slowly past. He had moved there when he saw the vehicle approaching, clearing a way for the truck to have full berth in the thin lane when it arrived. The ravine was a dry, leaf-speckled wrinkle...
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“We can’t be afraid of change. You may feel very secure in the pond that you are in, but if you never venture out of it, you will never know that there is such a thing as an ocean, a sea. Holding onto something that is good for you now, may be the very...
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I had heard earlier this week that there were a lot of birds at the ponds and fields in Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge. If I was a little more aware, I would have also know this coming weekend is the Festival of the Cranes down there, which celebrates the return of the...
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If you happen to be in Albuquerque any weeknight right after work, heading east on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and approaching the Broadway intersection to escape downtown, you might have a chance to experience it. Maybe you have experienced it. The experience seems peculiar to that intersection. It might be because the Jackson-Wink...
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We’re 10 days into November, and my No Media November has gone pretty well so far, I think. And I have to say, there are aspects to not having a TV available and not using social media at all that I would consider embracing permanently. For one thing, I find myself feeling a little...
Read more →I enjoyed a fuzzily lucid dream this morning before reality and the alarm clock screech broke in. Who knows where these things come from, or why they stay with us. Still, within my dream I was weighing the merits of a television program named “Inspiration Alley.” That program name I am sure of. I...
Read more →When my friend Pete on Facebook announced several days before November 1st that he was ditching media for a month, I thought “Yeah- that”, and I messaged him that I would join him. Media Break for the Month meant no social media, and no TV. Sure. It’s easy. Well, Saturday was test day 1...
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After a quick trip to Kansas last weekend to partake of the annual autumn Arkalalah Festival and to celebrate an aunt’s milestone birthday, I came back with a cold. I muddled through Monday. I coughed through the work day today. Still, caught in my constant war to try and figure out how to use...
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I’ve not been writing much for the last half a year, largely because I have just had a hard time thinking I had anything to write. Well, they say when you can’t think of much to write, write anyways, so this is a leap in that direction. This last weekend was deeply enjoyable for...
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Been a while since I posted anything, but I came across this song, and its lyrics tackled me- to the point I might have shed a tear or two. Particularly bruised was the old compliant part of my heart that, forever wearing the “good kid” mask, has otherwise long struggled to find a place...
Read more →Earlier this month, I picked up two books related to the topic of shame (see previous post), and I started reading the more psychological of the two right away (“The Soul of Shame” by Curt Thompson). Three weeks later, and I finally finished reading my fourth book of the year. Thompson’s book was a...
Read more →Last week, Tom Terry, an acquaintance of mine from back in my KLYT radio days and a Campus Crusade (Cru) guy, posted the title of a book he had started reading. Tom is a solid theology guy, and though I do not usually react to things he posts online, his book title caught my...
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