What gets your attention?
We all notice, don’t we? The thing that wasn’t there before. The thing that isn’t but was. The thing that’s different from one image to the next. Heck, that’s a puzzle I loved to do as a kid! Find all 10! Yes, if we’re paying even the slightest attention, we notice when something has changed, […]
Humaning Together
I don’t deserve what I have any more than the desperate refugee deserves to flee for his life or the starving child deserves to go hungry. Yet, I know them by heart. As the mother with hungry children gives them what little there is, and her portion, too. As the one without a home seeks […]
What did God mean when He spoke me?
What right have I to be here on this earth? Here, taking up space, demanding time, using resources. What right have I to demand that things be done my way? according to my plan, within my specifications, according to my schedule. I have no right to these. Not any claim on these. Any more than […]
Sidedness is natural, but let’s mind the gap when we board the bias bus
We’re born discriminating, distinguishing, and differentiating because we’re born very, very near-sighted. Our first job in life is to distinguish ourselves from the world. To determine what’s us and not them. This hand I see, the one that moved when I thought ‘move’, it moved! That hanging thing that flung when I thought the move and meant […]
The creating life
Creative people. Creative types. You know those people. The right-brained oddballs, who dress funny and speak funny and are just out there, you know? As much as I hate to admit it, I have labeled them this way. It’s an adjective I have used for those I am a bit jealous of because they have […]
Raindrops on the window, have you watched them too?
My 22 year old, bi-lingual daughter wrote me. “Look what was on Twitter: Soy ese 99,9999999999999% que de pequeño se quedaba mirando las gotas de lluvia en el cristal del coche para ver como hacían carreras.” She says, “My translation: I’m one of the 99.9999999999999% who as a child sat looking at the raindrops on the […]
Blessing, Curse or Both?
It was the best of me. It was the worst of me. And it’s the same thing about the same me. Clearly, I am a pleaser. I need to please, try to please, do whatever is necessary to be pleasing. This is a…good thing, right? Class officer, valedictorian, excellent grades, scholarship athlete. I get things […]
