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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I had an opportunity this past Saturday to join my friend Tammie and some of her family for the closing activities for the Archdiocese of Santa Fe’s “Pilgrimage for Vocations” week up in Chimayo. Tammie has a daughter that participated in the week’s event, and for me, it provided me with an opportunity to...
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Twenty five years ago, I and my middle school chum Glenn began our European jaunt with a short sail crossing a sea. With today being the 75th anniversary of the Normandy invasion in WWII, I figured it was as good as anything to post what I was doing over there 25 years ago. “We...
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A few weekends ago, I took New Mexico’s Highway 76- “the High Road to Taos”- north to do some church photography. It was a fine decision, because Highway 76, a 30-mile loop off of the normal route between Santa Fe and Taos, takes you into rolling picturesque hills on the west side of the...
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While trying to come up with a meaningful topic for the morning, I spent a while online tracking my friend Ben finishing the Charlottesville Marathon. Several miles from the finish line, he was being paced by the women’s leader of the race, and he was slowly creeping closer to her. It was good drama,...
Read more →This morning I dreamed I went back to the seminary I attended to tour its campus and when I went I took my pet beagle with me and while I was in a building there my dog got away from me and disappeared and I panicked and ran room by room through the building...
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I came home tonight from work tonight feeling much like I have many evenings recently. Listless. Unfocused. Anxious. Frustrated. Tired. Isolated. Stuck. The natural answer to the symptoms at the moment was to just go out and walk. So I went out and walked for an hour. It was good to just move randomly...
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