Personal reflections on my life and experiences.
About three years ago, I decided I needed help in wrangling with some issues in my inner life, and I called up a counselor I had seen for a season a decade earlier. We reconnected in an initial visit, and then reconvened into a routine of weekly visits. Why was I there? What did...
Read more →Earlier this year, on the morning of April 25th, I awoke to an unusual sensation in my body. Both feet had an odd ache in them, like each was painfully reawakening from a long dip in icy water, a feeling which then morphed into a partially numbed, partially tingly condition that hung around for...
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I peaked out back behind the house this afternoon, and there sat this Cooper’s hawk on the wall. He gave me one shot, and then he flew off.
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Today started at 5:30 AM when I got up and turned on the stove to warm a cold burrito and started the coffeemaker. I fed the cats and dressed and then grabbed the burrito and a cup of the coffee and I turned off the kitchen stuff and then I was in my truck,...
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Along with so many others, my sister and her family opted to get out of town for a little escape this Independence Day weekend, and in a display of maturity, her younger son also opted, but in his case, he opted to not join his family and go out of town, which meant he...
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Yesterday was a meaningful day in the Welton household, for it was doctor day. For me, I finally was able to see, and meet, a new doctor that I can call my primary after my last primary, a nurse practitioner in the hospital system I use, decided to become more of an administrator in...
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At 1:20 on Thursday afternoon, May 13th, I pulled out of my driveway and oriented my truck north on I-25, and started on an 8 day adventure. My trip took me principally to Lincoln, Nebraska, where I could join the rest of my family celebrating my niece Faith’s graduation from high school. Added into...
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I have wanted to post this picture for a week, but never felt like I could get the right words for it. I figured I’d just get on with it tonight. When I opened this image to process it a week ago, I had a sweep of pleasure wash over me. I thought the...
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It has been about 4 months now since the Siamese Po has joined my cat compound, adding his life gradually into each space in the house. For nearly half of that time, he lived in a single room upstairs, hide and bone, and for part of that period, living from a tube in his...
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I was revisiting the beginning of the Beatitudes today, and as I read in R. T. Kendall’s commentary on the subject, he offered this definition of the kingdom of heaven: The kingdom of heaven is “the rule of the un-grieved spirit in the believer”. This was a strong reminder for me that in the...
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Today, after an early end of work at home so I could drive downtown to the city office pyramid place and return my downtown parking permit, I continued on south to the Valle del Oro Wildlife Refuge, just to see what I could see. I was curious if any birds had taken to its...
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The last few days I’ve thought it would be good if I could just jot down a few of my memories about my Aunt Margaret. I find myself in writer’s block so chronically (which is a fear of writing things, really) that to write about anything meaningful is good for me. But moreso, it’s...
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This last week was significant to me for two reasons. The more basic, the more cyclical of the two is that I got older- at least by legal document standards. 51, and all I sort of hoped or imagined might come with it, for me is archived. At this age, birthdays are more like...
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It is 5:30 on Saturday afternoon, and I have just given Po his 3rd meal of the day. He gets one more tonight at around 9. On Thursday after work, I picked Po up from the vets after he received three days of care, and during his stay, the vet determined that he had...
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Tonight, the skinny little Siamese with giant black ears crouches in a cage at the veterinarian’s office. I see his long face bowed, as if in prayer, and I smell his kitty food breath, his head by my cheek as he softly breathes, his squinted eyes closed. For a short-time tenant, he has left...
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It was a treat to get over to my parents’ home this afternoon to celebrate July 4th. Joined by my two nephews, Brett and Grant, we were given the gift of a traditional Independence Day feast by mom and dad: Church’s Chicken chicken fingers, potato salad, baked beans, corn on the cob- and let...
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