Leap Day
I passed by a park and decided to let my toes tap the sky. Me, all grown here, I swung all by myself. I had no usual park patrons in tow,…
A Revelation
There's been a theme and boomerang to my thoughts here lately. There's been an idea that keeps looping back around to me from various sources and scriptures. And this whole…
Community
People need people. Even us humans who feel like crowds cut our energies and storehouses. Even us humans who fill back up by finding a quiet corner. Even us humans…
An Afternoon
I'm on the porch peeling a clementine. And I'm sitting here thinking about how life peels back the layers on us sometimes. How it digs in, rips back, and lets…
Receiving
Some of us need to learn to open our palms out wide for the offering. There are a good few of us here who need to crank our wrists around,…
This Day
As the sun rises high in our southern sky today, the temps will too. The mercury is projected to peek at 80, the heavens will be clear of clouds, and…
The Purge
Few things irk me like illness. Few things make me twitch and grimace like sickness does. A cold, cancer, or an ailment of any veracity or variety - I deem…
Aflame
When I attempt to light the fire of learning in my kids, I light a wick as well. Before math or science ever open up before us, I start melting…
7 Things
What I watch and read heavily effects me. I have a hard time compartmentalizing things and moving on. Ideas, scenes, lyrics, episodes, paragraphs - they all stick, and they all…
A Lesson
I was all of 25 when my oldest was 2. A child raising a toddler, I was even more clueless as I am now about bringing up this surprise gift…