Back in October, My Sweetie and I watched a documentary, Look & See. It’s focused around the writer Wendell Berry, who thoughtfully chose to live as a writer and as a farmer and as a family person in rural Kentucky. It’s also about some of the early days of what is currently the sustainable (and/or […]
During worship I had piquant and elevating thoughts that held the promise of a good blog post or two. And then I had a hunger for a burger, and (an hour or so later) a nap, and now my brain is about as piquant as a bowl of potato soup. Standing at the kitchen pass-through, […]
My classes for this term begin next week. Monday? Systematic theology, part two. Tuesday and Thursday? Presbyterian polity. polity [pol-i-tee] noun, plural polities. 1. a particular form or system of government: civil polity; ecclesiastical polity. 2. the condition of being constituted as a state or other organized community or body: The polity of ancient Athens […]
I walked out of the enneagram workshop to a great big moon, a water-cracker an arm’s reach away. I wanted to take a picture: to save it for later | to show off to friends But the camera deals in classical physics. The moon in the image would be the measured size of […]
The scum has come, My cocoa’s cold. The cup is numb, And I grow old. It seems an age Since from the pot It bubbled, beige And burning hot– Too hot to be Too quickly quaffed. Accordingly, I found a draft And in it […]
I am holding my red-shifted phone screen in a darkened room because (a) I got my now-annual “has glaucoma come for you?!” checkup this afternoon* and (b) I didn’t get my writing in before my eyes were dilated. My Sweetie can do All The Things with dilated eyes. Me, I already have a headache from […]
I would have thought, since I inhabit this frame, that I would know why. But I don’t. Today was a sleepy day, evidently. So I’m sharing a lullaby: (I learned it at summer camp. Late in life I learned that its title is “Slumber Boat”–thanks, Wikipedia!)
Talk time is a Thing We Do here at Chez Soques. Well, not lately… and by “lately” I mean “routinely lo this past decade.” But it’s a practice My Sweetie and I began when we were starting our lives together, and it’s made all the difference to us. I’m going to tell you what it […]
Today was another day that needed a perpendicular space-time window in it. I mean, the sandwich was super tasty, the staff were kind to have saved my stainless steel straw for me from Wednesday, the errands needed to be run at some point (finding the belt for the navy pants while I was still wearing […]
Princessy, is what it feels like. Walking aimlessly across the house, thinking: what shall I pick up to do? What if “book” or Real Simple is what I pick up to do, and not “blog post” or “shoe repair”? That would be pleasant. That would fit with another morning of thumbs-on-sinuses, though I feel squirrely […]
