What comes from silence

I’ve been avoiding silence recently. Oh, perhaps I haven’t had my iPod blasting full blast, or a movie on, or television, etc., but I’ve drowned out silence with incessant internet surfing, or talking, or something, anything really to prevent silence. This is odd. I used to crave silence, and something in me still does. I [...]

Contentment in a Culture of Consumerism

My upstairs neighbor decided to have a mid-afternoon James Brown marathon today.  I could only tell that it was James Brown after going outside, all I could hear inside my apartment was the bass.  So I decided to sit on the deck and pretend I was at a cafe with no control over the music, [...]

Pie… and other important things in life

I had a lot of fun just before Christmas cooking and baking, taking particular pleasure in this apple cranberry pie, made completely from scratch, crust and all. It amazes me sometimes how simple cooking is. This wonderful, flaky crust is just butter, flour, a pinch of salt, and a bit of ice water. Perhaps one [...]

Faithfulness, not success.

Well, I am back from my many trips in November to California for brother’s engagement party and friend’s ordination, Atlanta for the National Youth Worker’s Convention, and then Asheville for Thanksgiving with the in-laws. Much fun, but too many night without my bed! I thought I’d share something I was musing on… It struck me [...]

Flying through the jet-washes of life…

My friend Kelly posted on the last post and said that she was glad that my blog was alive again. And I was thinking that in some ways my blog had been a casualty of what basically felt like one tail spin after another. When I was a kid, my dad and brother loved the [...]