Okay, who else has been waking up to a June bug apocalypse? It’s not unusual around these parts for June bugs to start showing up in May. I suppose weather can affect their season. This year’s onset was actually June, more like late June. Maybe the din of the cicadas kept them at bay for […]
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Peace
“I just don’t have enough energy to let anyone steal my peace.” I don’t quite recall what I said that about. I feel like I’m taking this approach frequently. Not sure if it’s a sign of maturity or just exhaustion. Some days (or perhaps many days) it’s easier said than done. Some days it seems […]
Winning
“Our phones haven’t been ringing. I guess we didn’t win the Vax-a-Million. I feel like being able to travel like this is winning, though.” We were both vaxxed against Covid prior to the lottery being announced, but it was a nice perk to dream of winning a pile of cash, and it seems to have […]
The Pursuit of Beauty
I listened to a podcast this week in which author John Eldredge acknowledges the entire world has been through a trauma with the Covid pandemic. He goes on (at about the 20:00 mark) to discuss the pursuit of beauty, saying beauty “is so important to healing trauma”. I’m a big fan of beauty and the […]
Books and Masks and Such
According to my fitness tracker, my breathing was kind of meh overnight. Which may help explain why I’m a complete and total space cadet today. Stupid pollen. But slog through the springtime I must. I’m not good for much else at the moment, so I’ve been binging an audiobook – The Book of Lost Friends. […]
This Too Shall Pass
Just when I think my spring allergies can’t be any worse … eh, they’re kinda bad. This too shall pass. If we can fast forward to the sweet spot between grass and ragweed season, that’d be great. And then let’s skip ahead to fall. If only life worked that way. I heard today about a […]
Agendas and Calendars, Oh My
Do you have and agenda or do you have an agenda? Some people refer to the paper calendars they use to schedule their lives as agendas. Agendae? Whatever. Having gone through the age of the 5”x8”-ish Franklin Planner, which weighed approximately five tons … and Palm Pilots, which famously would get out of sync and […]
Blissful Ignorance
Where did April go? Like seriously, today is the 29th and I feel like this month has vanished. Pollenpalooza plus tax season is sufficient to put me in a fog, so there’s that. As I duck and cover from springtime, I find myself ducking and covering even more than usual from social media. The sanctimony […]
Peace, Love, and Tree Hugging
Happy Earth Day. Everyone go hug a tree. It’ll be a far better use of your time than any of the violence inciting, race baiting, whatabouting, half-truth reporting that seems to dominate the culture anytime we turn on a screen. “I’m not sure what’s true anymore,” said my friend the other day, referring to a […]
Mamma Mia
I hopped into the car thinking I’d fire up a podcast, sleep deprived and not yet caffeinated. Much to my delight the music was already on shuffle and featuring a tune from the Mamma Mia soundtrack. Shuffle knows. Trust the shuffle. Discussion topic: The theological implications of songs from the Mamma Mia soundtrack. It is […]