This morning I took a little time (set my timer for ten minutes) for bringing my intentions in line with my actions; that is, for sitting with my Love awhile the way I sit with My Sweetie. The challenges are similar. For good communication to come out of another’s silence, I find that it is […]
I have just finished poet Mary Oliver’s A Thousand Mornings while eating a bag of beet and sweet potato chips. It is the most nonchalant I’ve been with poems since I can’t remember when. I may have been going about poem-reading incorrectly. I checked this volume out of the library maybe a month ago. A book […]
I suspected that completing solid Sabbath prep would be challenging when I was teaching an 8-hour Girl Scout class on a Saturday. And I was correct; it’s 8:16 pm, I smell like a happy campfire, and writing this only puts me halfway through my pre-Sabbath checklist. But Sabbath is made for us humans, not the […]
Last night I was “taking steps” (walking laps around the block for 10-20 minutes) and listening to the latest Creative Giant podcast (#113). Grief is this episode’s focus, which may have you cocking your head and thinking, WTF? Why would anyone opt in for this? But I treasure the wide-ranging nature of this podcast… after […]
But at the same time, the writer’s knowledge of the topic is transformed as a consequence of having converted private thoughts into a public symbol system. Such transformation occurs even when others do not read the text and provide external feedback to the author, although the availablilty of such feedback from the discourse community certainly […]
What if my struggle with daily prayer is because I don’t talk to my parents or sister but two or three weeks apart? It’s been a few days since I scribbled this down, so I don’t remember what prompted it. But here’s the thing: when you ask, I will tell you I’m part of a […]
Today’s start feels a little more routine. I must be acquiring one, then, if I’m prompted to say that-! For the past two days or so, my brain has been consumed with what I just realized is impostor syndrome overlaid with genuine logistical fuzziness. You see, on Saturday I’m teaching outdoor skills for Girl Scout […]
I think I’ve solved one of my dailiness dilemmas. I have had trouble in keeping to daily study, even when I have a study set up that way. I’ll end up batching the lessons together into a hour or two’s work, whether at the end of the week or in the middle, doesn’t matter. I’m […]
What gets measured, gets done. —Peter Drucker …continued from yesterday… The first challenge in figuring out whether a church is successful is to articulate: what does it mean to be a successful church? The traditional methodology, common in mainline denominations, is measuring ABC: Attendance, Buildings, Cash. As best as I can tell, these became measurements because […]
What gets measured, gets done. —Peter Drucker Back when I worked at a church, I started thinking about metrics. Wait, let’s back up further— I became interested in measuring the not-measurable when I was working on my certificate for to be a English/Language Arts secondary teacher. I know gradations of artistic merit when I read […]
