I had the neat experience of meeting a local celebrity last Sunday night. It’s an experience because when you meet a celebrity, you kind of wonder if the magic of who they are in their celebrity-hood will rub off on you at all, and somehow also make you more special. Well, I don’t know...
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It wasn’t the ideal weekend for us to get together, but it worked out great anyways. At least it did for me. Steve was in town for the sorrowful reason of seeing his wife’s father laid to rest. The service completed on Friday (well-attended and honored by the words of his children), Steve had...
Read more →Today was a normal Tuesday in most aspects. I got up. I made coffee. I went to work. I had small group. It was different in two ways though. Before work, I had a medical appointment with a specialist whose office was on the west side, in a direction opposite from where I work...
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It’s funny- we think because we are tied into social networks, we would feel ourselves more intimately connected with others in our life and in our world. Not the case, creator Shimi Cohen argues in this remarkable short video. Shimi makes some poignant observations about the human heart in modern times. Loneliness remains...
Read more →Today is Easter Sunday, which as a Christian I celebrate for the resurrection of Jesus, the foundational assertion and centerpiece of my faith- that God sent His Son into the world to die as a sacrifice for human sin, so that in His resurrection from the dead, Death would be dealt a mortal blow...
Read more →The highlight of my day today was being able to pay a tribute on Facebook to my old boss at RCN in Chicago, Stephanie Ratko. Busy with a lot of responsibilities of her own and always professional, Stephanie still stood by me, made time to listen to me, and overlooked a tide of emotional...
Read more →When I started high school, I was a kid in transition. I was growing at odd intervals. My acne ebbed and receded like waves on a beach. I was in a lot of activities, and I was pretty anonymous in all of them. And I was adrift socially (as I have often been since)....
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I was fortunate enough to be able to get away with my brother this last weekend for a pretty stellar 24 hours of river time in northern New Mexico. My brother is usually pretty busy with soccer activities on Saturdays (3 kids, all playing), but we found a window that worked, and his wife...
Read more →Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord, O my soul. I will praise the Lord all my life; I will sing praise to my God as long as I live. ~ Psalm 146:1-2 It’s been a good week the last week, although the more I seem to try and understand life, the less I seem...
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I don’t know what the deal is, but I am enjoying a round of nausea this afternoon. My guess it is the result of re-upping on a medication, but it could also be my stomach’s unhappy handling of a mug of coffee this morning, or a reaction to something else I have eaten. I...
Read more →Another weekend closes down. I am entering this post after finishing up a good 7 hours of being at work staring at the project that won’t build itself. Not all of this time has been spent on programming. I am still in a mental fog from sleep hunger and whatever else is stifling my...
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It’s another late night post after a long day. That seems to be the mode of late. I want to get something written up about a topic or my day, and the words don’t develop until after 10 p.m. I wish I could get past that. Still, today was a good day, if only...
Read more →It’s been a long short weekend. Between yesterday and today, about 15 hours of it was spent at the office, coding, trying to get a web project ready for presentation to a state agency tomorrow morning. It’s been a little stressful, but the site is a good demonstration of what we can do in...
Read more →“We who had sweet fellowship together walked in the house of God in the throng.” ~ Psalm 55:14 Tonight, I was honored to have a few friends from church and from my church small group over for dinner. The three have become special friends to me over the last year. Back in early summer...
Read more →Tonight, we spent the early part of the evening with Walter, saying goodbye. My sister’s exchange student, Walter departed this evening to head back home to China after spending a school year here in Albuquerque. My brother and his family, my parents, and my sister’s husband’s mother met Walter for dinner at Applebee’s near...
Read more →Today I did something that I rarely (if ever) do, and it was, well, hard. I told an old friend I was disappointed in him. The moment for the acknowledgement began innocently enough. I received an email from him which had a short blurb telling me about a friend he had known from childhood...
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