Sleep still clogged my ears as I listened to Tom Hanks talk about his typewriters. About how his cutting and pasting involves scissors, and glue. I remember doing this. I am not nostalgic for this, even if one can make interesting cases for finger-strength and percussion, for the feel of type-indented paper. What I delightedly […]
I’d almost climbed into bed when I realized that I’d lost track of writing a blog-post. And then I realized that part of what happened was that I had composed a blog post… just not for this blog. To further complicate my memory, what I was really doing at the time was figuring out how […]
At times like this, I feel the small curse of my introspective nature and its obstinate demands, how it wants to be allowed, wants my unhurried and undivided attention, how the moments of life insist on being metabolized and given expression. As usual, having failed to stop and tend to this unmitigated part of myself, […]
“…If hard and bitter ways should be our lot, help us to remain steadfast, never complaining about our burdens even in the most difficult days…” — from a prayer by Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt, shared for October 11, 2017 Rouse yourself! Why do you sleep, O Lord? Awake, do not cast us off forever! Why […]
I am of the first generation After Kennedy—that is, I grew up annoyed at the way my teachers would get all misty and heartfelt about a shared experience that I had zero way to access. But via my alma mater, I found another ‘in’ to Kennedy through his hat-tip embedded in this speech: “Why does […]
I’m reading Traveling with Pomegranates, a dual (dueling? no-!) memoir from Sue Monk Kidd and Ann Kidd Taylor. I’m not going to tell you about it, except for that I randomly ended up with a copy, and happen to be almost exactly Kidd’s age as she was writing. Looking into another writer’s head while she’s […]
We have been digging into the authority of Scripture in Theology class. We’ve done a semi-formal debate, and now we’re completing a paper. Though in the meantime we’ve also been tackling the Trinity—even tougher!—and are in the midst of Providence. (Did you know theologians make providential jokes? It’s providential that you’ve heard them! Or haven’t […]
(ni bon, ni juste) Starting a Pandora station by choosing the band Blood, Sweat, and Tears makes a gloriously funk-filled sonic experience with no tweaking needed. By choosing Chicago, the drift into Air Supply and REO Speedwagon is quick. People are paying attention. It’s not just your kids who attend to what you do more […]
The smell of hospitals in winter, And the feeling that it’s all a lot of oysters but no pearls… —Adam Durtiz, “A Long December” The sky is creamy blue. The sunlight has turned the tops of the leaves gold, but the heat has softened to 70°, so we just might be changing seasons. The dapples […]
I think our naïveté has caught up with us. Back when I was a bride, back when I was first becoming a systems administrator, digital communication drew me like a magnet. The field was called “computer-mediated communication” back then, when it was new and a year’s papers could be encompassed in a single volume. […]
