Photo by Danila Hamsterman on Unsplash Isn’t it wild, the way that they just drop a full extra day into our year without discussion or permission? It’s kind of like having the audacity to bring your kid’s best friend to the baby sitter for the day as if it’s nothing. I mean, it’s not even an alternating extraContinue reading “Take a Leap, Year”
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Selfie-less
Photo Credit: Chillee Vaivaka – street photographer. I have spent a number of hours in the last two days watching every video and looking at every photograph on @dino.serrao ‘s account on Instagram. If you somehow haven’t seen them yet, go there now. I am late to the party as well as apparently he hasContinue reading “Selfie-less”
Happy New Day
Photo by Nathan Dumlao on Unsplash I hate New Year’s Eve. I’m just going to say it. So excessive. Last year I could barely face it because I had lost someone I really loved and it meant that I was heading into a new year in which that dear person would never live. 2023 was the first yearContinue reading “Happy New Day”
120 Degrees
Photo by Aaron Burden on Unsplash There was nothing perfect about that first Christmas except that it was a perfect storm of obligation, lack of planning, overcrowding, bad timing and taxation. I mean, if you don’t count the miracles. And yet, we remember that imperfectly perfect Christmas. The one that started it all. And we chase the elusivenessContinue reading “120 Degrees”
Weighing Bel-Air
Aren’t we all exhausted? Three years and counting of wide eyed anxiety at what’s coming next. Is there an issue that hasn’t come up or a topic that we haven’t been compelled to examine? I don’t know of another time in my life where so much of what I think, how I move through theContinue reading “Weighing Bel-Air”
Into the Breach
We are in the middle of a disaster. Optimism is dependent upon rainfall, dykes and pumps. It is too soon anyway, to dive for hope when many are literally marinating in uncertainty and soaked to the skin in loss and destruction. There is much to assess and more possible wreckage in the weeks ahead. ItContinue reading “Into the Breach”
Thanksgivingologist
I’m a traditionalist. So I love holidays and gatherings and special occasion food and doing certain things because that’s the way my mom always did. But, I’m not such a conformist that our circle and our celebrations haven’t widened and changed as we have added new family, adjusted to schedules and adopted new customs thatContinue reading “Thanksgivingologist”
Vicinitas
The window is open, the pillow is soft. The ebb and flow of this neighborhood are my alarm clock and my lullabye. Soothed by the sounds of the unremarkable, lawn mowers and laughing, garbage trucks, the muffled overhead announcements from the school across the road. Saturday morning shouts from the open field, soccer and cricketContinue reading “Vicinitas”
I Will
Easter. It has been on my mind all week. The Resurrection and the hope of that miracle, the joy of Easter morning. But honestly, I have also been thinking about a different resurrection story. I have been thinking about the leper who was healed by Jesus. In those times, the lepers were the outcast ofContinue reading “I Will”
Is it Bright in Here, or is it Just Me?
Tunnels. Do you hold your breath? Close your eyes? Or do you focus solely on the darkness, waiting to see the light at the end? It seems that life is a collection of processes. Everything that happens, everything we do or accomplish, everything we learn, both the hard, worthwhile things and the good, joyful things,Continue reading “Is it Bright in Here, or is it Just Me?”
Something to Shay 