I’m writing this on a bitterly cold January morning; temperatures hovering barely above zero and the wind chill factoring to about -15℉. My ten-minute walk to work left me with a wind-burned face and a nasty brain freeze. It is not conducive to a very optimistic mindset of grabbing the new year by its horns […]
Christmas is… a time capsule. A puzzle box. Buried treasure. Tradition. Comfort and joy. Orange pomander balls and stockings. Christmas trees and puddings. The season bursting with tantalizing historical questions. Questions about how we celebrate the birth of Christ and the underlying whys, and what they say about us. The ordinary points to the extraordinary. […]
I don’t know if you’ve noticed this but… we live in a world that increasingly and exhaustively thrives on false dichotomies and divisions. If you don’t like something it is automatically “bad.” Or if you happen to like something someone else doesn’t, you get chewed out. Everyone has to be right; everyone else is wrong. […]
October is two-thirds gone! Time flies when you’re busy… and not stuck in the epic doldrums of the mid-Pandemic. I thought I’d give a few updates about what’s been happening with me this season. I am busier than I thought I would be, and busy in a good way. The Pandemic isn’t entirely over, but […]
I’ve had a realization lately. Not anything so profound as to shatter the Earth. But it has been a course correction to some of the beliefs and thought-patterns driving me: to run or not to run. Where It Started: The Dreaded “Mile” I’d always believed I was physically incapable of running. Therefore, it was pointless […]
