I am sure this has been done many times before, but as I start my career as a basketball coach (for 4th grade boys in a church league, no less) I was reminded there are a lot of lessons a basketball coach can give to us that relate to living a good life. I...
Read more →In the summer after my 4th grade year of elementary school, my parents bought a home way out north in Albuquerque (at the time) and moved us to a street that was near the edge of town. The development was new enough that the land on the south side of the main road we...
Read more →Tonight our church small group got back together again for the first time in three weeks due to the Christmas furlough. It was a joy to be back together with this small cluster of people who have become my circle of closer friends over the last year. I am glad there was a lot...
Read more →So, I decided that for my New Years resolution, I would try to write more. I would try to write regularly. I would try to write for an hour, 5 days of the week. It started off pretty well, for two days. Then I missed one. And then I wrote one. And then I...
Read more →After a year-and-some of living in this structure people call my house, I went out in the garage tonight and emptied about three boxes of books, bringing them inside for a public life on a new book shelf I threw into the meager furniture mix. I actually went out in the garage and planned...
Read more →Sometimes I like to stop and think about David- yeah, that guy in the Bible- because the Good Book says that God really loved David, because David was “a man after God’s own heart.” I try to figure out what that means, what David did to have a heart like God’s, because I’d like...
Read more →It’s an interesting thing, that we greet each New Year with hopes and aspirations. We like new beginnings, and since time is measured by our calendar, we naturally realize the best time to make a change is when the year seems new. The funny thing is, we follow a calendar that is artificial. The...
Read more →It is timely for me that I picked up Steven Pressfield’s book “Turning Pro” recently, and cracked it open this weekend. A quick read, the book totally spoke to me about where I have been of late. In it, Pressfield readdresses some concepts he introduced in “The War of Art,” about work and getting...
Read more →My brother and his family have been packing up all this week for a moment that occurs early tomorrow morning- when they will collectively pile into two vehicles, and start a long drive that will take them out of New Mexico. Moving away. Possibly for good. I shouldn’t look at this transition in our...
Read more →Every year we make ’em. Every year we break ’em. Why do we keep doing this? New Years’ resolutions. Yes, from one angle, they can be a list of goals we expect to not reach. That weight we can’t lose. That instrument we can’t seem to learn. That trip we can never seem to...
Read more →Not hip to the hot R&B of the 90’s, I came across this tune on my Backstreet Boys station on Pandora (no snickering!), and all I can say is I love the sterling sound of these brothers’ blended vocals. I wish I could sing, and if I could I wish I could sing in...
Read more →This morning when my alarm went off at 5:30, I pretty much cursed it and then texted my friend Kurt, trying to talk him out of our scheduled Loop run. I had been having a good dream and my bed was warm and I just wanted to sleep, so everything in me did not...
Read more →The weekend was good. I’m becoming a little more active than I have been of late. My buddy Kurt and I got three Loop jogs in last week. My body needs the exercise to, of all things, stave off aches and pains, among other reasons. I could lose a few pounds as well. We’ll...
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I love the lyrics to the chorus of this song. Contrary to the covert relationship portrayed in the video, authentic love encourages us to be visibly strong and dedicated to those we love, and draws us to also encourage and nurture strength in others. It drives us to be strength in the storm, to...
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Take 80’s “I Can Dream About You” guy, throw in the goofy frenetic action of the movie “Fletch”, and weave in some pseudo club beats, and you get this peppy pill. This is dedicated to my bro ChrisP, because “It’s the name of the game- it’s not about money…” That about says it all....
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