On Sunday my youngest will no longer be a teen. We will have no children who could even remotely be claimed as children (though we definitely will be claiming some dependents for tax and health-insurance purposes!). Folk have been commenting in the past two years about each of our girls: “My goodness, she looks so […]
My formerly-a-nutritionist-friend was right on the money when she said The Shape I’m In would require daily maintenance. Not that I doubted her; she’s the kind of scientist I’m accustomed to and only speaks verifiable truths in her field(s) of expertise. So I’ve stood on the scale nightly even after the Half-Plate Project wrapped last […]
They serve a purpose or they wouldn’t exist. Human artifacts are like that, even if the artifact in question’s only purpose is delight, like a Viennese pastry’s. And a name is, indeed, an artifact, a contrivance, a made-thing even if we can’t hold it. We can hold the object it refers to… if it’s the […]
While last week was wrapping around into this one, I was fooling around with the Enneagram. Yes, yet another personality quiz and human-sorter… I do love me some categories. I’d taken various f*ree online Enneagram assessments in years past, getting “well…. I guess…” results, but the one I chose most recently delivered a result that […]
This song has been stuck in my head all weekend. I don’t think it has anything to do with you… …but at the same time, this is all the post I’m putting out today.
At some point I’ll get around to writing about my recently acquired habits. Because much to my surprise, I have! Acquired a few habits that I’d wanted, that is. But it’s past 9:30pm, I have to get up early in the morning to go teach camping, and the other chief reason I’m writing is because […]
Question Two: What commitment am I willing to make? This question recognizes that if change is to occur, it will come from my own free choice, not from the investment of the institution or the transformation of others. Every project of consequence or personal calling will require more of us than we originally imagined. Sister […]
“God has favorites.” Discuss this claim in light of the Joseph narrative. In case it’s been a while, here’s The Joseph Narrative So… I’ve always read the Joseph story in light of my own experience. Which, sure, is what we all have to do when we read anything in the Bible… but for this I […]
[N.B.: I discovered this leaf in an odd corner of my cellphone, dried out and a little dusty. It’s from my week at the Glen Workshop; the person I refer to here I later found was quite ill — she had to go home early — but I somehow don’t think her illness spawned this […]
What’s worth doing, even if I fail? –Brené Brown, Daring Greatly, p. 42 Really, what I want to be doing is to be climbing into bed at an absurdly early hour. My Sweetie is having a quiet night, too, of television and pine-nut shelling… he watches far less TV these past months than I’ve been […]
