I started off this Saturday with some positive, active, constructive plans, and the day began right with some eggs and potatoes and coffee. I read a chapter in a book I have been trying to get through- check. I looked forward to marking several other times off of my to-do list after that, and...
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It’s been, for some reason, a tremendously slow reading year for me this year. It’s not because I don’t have books to read. I have a sizable stack of books just waiting to be read, and they are inviting tomes. I think its just been more that I’ve had a hard time making myself...
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Yesterday morning, I was grateful to play hooky from church and just enjoy the quiet of a Sunday morning at home. After my chores, I climbed into a chair at the bar table in the back of my kitchen, opened my journal, and then opened Mark Batterson’s book, “In A Pit With A Lion...
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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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Last night, I started reading one of a number of short writing books I picked up over the last few months. At the turn of the year, I thought if I read more writing books, I’d write more, so I scoured a few writing book lists from decent sources on the internet for recommends....
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As a change, I’m actually writing this here post at 7 in the morning, as opposed to trying to write it at 11 PM. It is nice to be up with the feeling that a new day is ahead, and that I am somehow a little less tired than I was 8 hours ago....
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 →I’ve been thinking a lot about what it means to be a man over the last year. Sadly, I realize I really hadn’t given this much thought throughout the earlier years of my adult life, and suddenly, now that I am smack in mid-life, I’ve started to ask the question. You know, you get...
Read more →I was clickety-clacketing away at my keyboard at work today when a co-worker mused, “It’s already the 20th. Can you believe February is almost gone?” Yeah, uhh- well, no, I can’t. The year just started. It was just yesterday that the old calendar was tossed and the new one was hung. Well, it was...
Read more →When I got up on Saturday morning (sorta early), I went to see my friend Brad, and we talked. I hadn’t seen Brad for probably 2 months, and so I hadn’t talked to him since before Christmas and New Years and Kwanza and my mom’s birthday. Brad looked great, and yet the same to...
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