Several years ago I published a book containing much of the writing on the topic of the Church that I had published here up to that point. Those posts are still available in the archives, and many are still read on a weekly basis. Just the other day I was flipping through a copy of…
Tag: Observations
The Year of Jubilee
I had a run-in with the law this week. Well, it was not specifically I who did, and, it was more of a “walk-in” as opposed to a “run-in”. But that statement was generally true. If you are a regular reader of this website, you are aware that our oldest son is running a lemonade…
Bee-Do, Bee-Do
“You’re a human being, not a human doing!” Perhaps you’ve heard, or read that somewhere? I have. It’s clever, and correct—albeit somewhat cliche. A quick search of the web will confirm its ubiquitous usage.1 The reason for such widespread repeating? We tend to focus on the things we do, more than the things we are….
No Strings Attached
This was originally posted April 19th, 2010. It could easily have been posted in 2013, so I am re-posting it today. It continues the theme of how we interact, how we relate. Speaking of which … off to the next visit! 🙂 I just need to get something off my chest. I’ve been thinking about…
Full of Life
Recently, I was fascinated by poop. (Yes, you read that correctly.) Actually, it started in a public outhouse-style “restroom”. If you’ve never used an outhouse, or a “port-a-potty”, it’s just a big container collecting all the liquid and solid waste, rather than flushing it away down a nice, convenient pipe—out of sight, out of mind….
[From The Archive] Life Is In The Moments
It’s been a while since I’ve added any posts to this series “From The Archive“. There are a few reasons I am doing so today. First, I am coming up on ten years of blogging. That’s a good chunk of writing on “the internets”. Almost a million words written, nearly two thousand posts. That sure…