Love Opens
Love opens: such simple words, uttered in a world where too many doors are slamming shut.
Creative Juices
Where do creative juices come from? This is my question as I plod along a very familiar path. Foot by ever-loving foot, sneaker meets pavement. The feet move slower than molasses but the brain is another story. Literally. My brain whirrs with ideas, putting things together that I never thought knew each other. Suggesting solutions. […]
Renewal
The whole world comes alive when the sun rises. One by one, two by two they emerge from east, from west, from every way and every other way, whole flocks together as if a heavenly call has gone out and they’re heeding its message. Is it the rays, the light, the glimmer that bids them […]
Broken like a record: 400,000 lives need us to carry them into a new day
What a difference four years can make.: a somber national mall now brimming with life.
privilege has its consequences
In high school I had to learn that the rules must apply to everyone. That’s a lesson we’re all still learning.
how we respond to ‘thou shalt not’ says a lot about who we are
Does dissent that is celebrated in our youth grow up into sedition?
2020
Pay attention. Look closely. Tell me. What do you see?
Holy Crap!
“You don’t actually believe all that crap, do you?” There is a good bit of historical record from the time of Jesus. Archaeological. Temples. Cities. Edifices. But unlike the way those today would proclaim their King-dem, the life Jesus led would not be signaled in artifact or chiseled into stone. The life Jesus lived is […]
I Make An Act of Thanksgiving
In making an act of Thanksgiving of my penciled thoughts and prayers I discovered a surprising freedom and a unique invitation.
What makes art, art?
What makes art, art? worship, worship? beauty, beauty? is not of it but of us.