What’s Revealed at the Pool?
How do you get in? Close your eyes, hold your nose and jump! Shimmy in, inch by inch. Step. down. the. ladder. Look out below!! SPLASH Test the water … Sit with feet dangling Sunning and dipping. Sunning and dipping. Dive: Lap, lap, lap, lap, lap, lap. You can tell a lot about a person […]
Looking down
I’m jogging around a small, oval 3-lane track at the gym, so slowly, well, okay walking, in the inside lane — the one nearest the railing where you can look down on three floors of people beating themselves up to try to stave off age, time, years of inattention and just plain sluggishness — and […]
Messy on the Moguls
There is just something majestic about the view from the chairlift, mountains of rolling powder speckled with evergreens and interstitial aspens. The sky rising above them is an impossible blue, and the bright orb of sun insists you avert your eyes until green branches deflect the intensity and invite a moment of marvel. White sparkles […]
Exchanging Fear and Worry for Thanks
New every morning. Or after a nap, a good run, a walk around the lake. It’s not the rising and setting of sun that sets my mood, it’s the respite. A time to let the mind wander and tippy toe over the field of neurons who happily spark and ignite one another on their merry […]
Without a deadline, I’d never get to Christmas
It’s amazing what a deadline does. Take Christmas for example. On December 25th, at least in these parts, folks wake up to Christmas day and they expect their gifts to be under the tree, stockings to be filled and Christmas dinner preparations to be well under way. As the Dr. Seuss’ Grinch so aptly points […]
Sketching angels that are bigger than life
Ah, the clean slate of a new year. Fresh off the Christmas holiday, we’re feeling good about ourselves. Time to activate on the new year’s resolutions. Weight loss? Exercise? Quitting that bad habit? Nah, let’s not bother with the small stuff. Let’s go big. “Seek first his Kingdom and his righteousness and all these things […]
I don’t create, I rearrange
I am not creative. I do not create something from nothing. That was done once, only once. I rearrange. Been rearranging since the beginning of me. Today, I give thanks for the gift of creativity. The desire to look at a thing and all that surrounds it and try out the combinations. What goes here? […]
Select, Elite or Chosen?
“That I am chosen to minister means to let other people discover that they are chosen, too.” ~ Henri Nouwen For so many of us, chosen takes us back to that moment on the playground when the captains were choosing up sides. The best kids go first. The worst were saved for last. It was […]
Call me Classic, But Don’t Call Me Old
When my kids call me “classic,” it’s their not-so-veiled way of calling me old. While growing older is something I can’t avoid, and don’t want to, given the alternative, old is not a way I want to be, especially not at Christmas. It used to be easy to do kid-stuff when our children were small. […]
Are you leaving a margin?
What if we printed our books and wrote our essays right up to the very edges leaving no margin? Wouldn’t that be a much a better use of our space. Why waste all that good white paper around the edges? I know. I know. The book publishers out there will tell me it’s easier on […]