Don’t talk
"Valour that parleys is near yielding"George Herbert, "Proverbs" in The Complete English Works, 274. This saying reminds us that sometimes it's better to walk away…
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Nana’s skateboard
When I was a boy my Mom's folks lived in Lancaster, PA--nearly six hundred miles from our northern Indiana home. Grandpa and Nana lived in…
Twenty
Yesterday Diedra and I celebrated twenty years of matrimony. We went out to dinner at a wonderful place called Vera Mae's Bistro. The weather was…
Love/hate
I have a love/hate relationship with writing, preaching, piano playing, woodworking, cooking--many of the things I mostly love, but regularly find frustrating because they are…
But a scratch?
In medicine, we want therapies that work--and they need to correspond to the severity of the illness. If you have a scratch, you might need…
Like a tree
"It is dangerous to explain too clearly to man how like he is to the animals without pointing out his greatness. It is also dangerous…
Presence
I wrote here about the importance of committing to a group in order to be able to contribute and receive a sense of belonging. "Join…
Small memories
My retired friend shared how much it meant to him that his Grandfather would take him into his garden with a couple of salt shakers…
True happiness
Our modern use of the word "happy" seems to refer mostly to an emotional state. Older uses include this--but seem to be more holistic than…
Do you hear music?
In C.S. Lewis's The Magician's Nephew, you get to read about the creation of Narnia. It's beautiful. Aslan, the Lion, sings the world into existence--the…