June 2011
9 posts
These Precious Things.
Too many men work too much. From their job, to their hobbies, to home improvements, to needlessly always being the guy to volunteer to do everything, some men never stop and it’s because they don’t know how and more truthfully, don’t want to. I’m not immune. Although nobody has ever had to tell me to take a vacation, I find my mind constantly in overdrive plotting new...
Computer World.
Ahh lists. You gotta love ‘em. I was never a list maker, but I kind of am now. I have this little digital post-it note thing on my comp that I add to and delete and add to and delete almost every day and I gotta say that it’s been kind of helpful. There are things that have to get done, things I want to get done, and things that don’t really matter if they get done or not but...
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Ready To Start.
The rumors are true, my favorite TV show of all time is Little House on the Prairie. No apologies….I mean…I think you should probably apologise if it was The Dukes of Hazzard, The Cosby Show, 90210, Dancing With the Stars or Jersey Shore, but that’s a whole other convo.
The fact is that I completely idealized the image that was portrayed of the Ingalls family: simple, hard...
Under Cover of Darkness.
How claustrophobic is your life? Do you ever spend time with someone and feel the weight and burden of overcommittment just hovering over them, waiting to bear down and crush them? Too many tasks, too many activities, too many committments, too much volunteer work, too many ministries, too many sports, too many hobbies…too many too many’s. Sure, we’ve probably all been at...
A Man Called Sun.
Summer is a strange time here in my newly adopted hometown of Ashland, Ohio. It can feel like a bit of a ghostown at times, people coming in and out, some leaving on vacation, moving into different schedules, keeping to themselves and their families a bit more, seasonal things opening for the summer, activities changing because there is now this thing called sunshine available, etc. It was...
Brilliant Trees.
I searched for weeks trying to find a theatre in either Columbus or Cleveland that was showing “Tree of Life”, and finally found it playing at The Cedar Lee in Cleveland Heights. A charming, older theatre in a refurbished part of town, right up the street from a great restaurant called Melt, Beth and I could hardly contain our enthusiasm. Three hours later we looked a little quizzical,...
Procession.
Routines can sometimes feel like madness. We like to think that time somehow stops every night for 8 hours when we sleep, providing a reset/restart when we wake up, but in reality, the motion of life never ceases. This morning it’s Sunday, so I wake up early and start contemplating church services in front of a window looking out at grey skies with coffee, a Bible and a computer screen...
1979.
There was such a nostalgic aspect to Super 8, a new film that came out Friday by JJ Abrams and Steven Spielberg, that I left the theatre in a sort of suspended, animated, bizarrely joyous state….kind of how I always want to leave a movie feeling. The setting of the film went a long way toward mimicing some of my own “Goonies” style adventures of the late 70’s, early...
A Rush and a Push and the Land is Ours.
The days tend to get away from you sometimes. And some months. And some years. But I don’t want to be a juggler. I don’t want to simply maintain the various elements of my life regardless of whether they come under the headings of family, church, music, job, friendships, hobbies or fill in the blank. I don’t want excercises in futility. I want to redeem the time that God has...
