Yesterday marked the year anniversary of my dad’s death. In many ways it feels like just last week rather than last year, making me painfully aware of just how quickly time flies. When I look back at my posts here as well as my own journaling, I realize that time really is the overarching theme in my life right now, with the majority of my thoughts being about how I spend what time I have. I am definitely one of…
After what has seemed like an unnecessarily busy week, I finally had a few minutes to stop and take in what is passing at the moment for fall in Texas. Though it is still hot, the trees are starting to lose their leaves. The leaves themselves aren’t the beautiful yellows, oranges, golds, and reds like can be seen on the east coast, but if you catch the sun and the brown leaves at just the right time of day, the setting…
Lately I have found a few moments where my body is still, but in that physical stillness, my mind continues to race furiously onward. In fact, my mind seems even busier when my body is still. This cycle of never being at peace has been tough on me this week. It seems that for every step that I have taken with the hope that it will bring a little calm, there is a stronger force that pushes me backward and…
Time, invisible Yet touching everything. It leaves a deep scar. KEB 10-07-15
I don’t like it when the universe feels the need to teach me a lesson somewhat subversively, but that is exactly what happened today. For no reason that I can identify, I managed to leave the house this morning without my phone. I realized this about half way to school. On most mornings, we could have turned around and run home to get it, but today the traffic was terrible. Weber would have surely been late for school had we…
Despite the fact that we are two weeks into fall according to the calendar, the weather here has not gotten the official word. Temperatures are in the 90’s and the summer annuals are still in full bloom. The oak tree has dropped a few leaves, so I am being optimistic that sometime soon fall will arive in more than name! If you are interested, here is the link to today’s Tuesday in Texas post on Pixels, Plates, and LOLs. Tracey…
Today is Food Friday, which means I spent a good part of the day cooking and taking photographs along the way to post on Pixels, Plates, and LOLs! Click on over for some tasty apple recipes. I played for a service tonight at the Interfaith Peace Chapel. It was a Taize service with a celebration of the Transitus of St. Francis. Both are moving services in their own right, but experiencing them together was exceptionally moving. After the service, a few…
One thing that I have learned, because the lesson has been shown to me time and time again, is that no doors ever really shut in life. Our existence involves continuous movement, an unchoreographed dance, through a constantly revolving door. The variables that impact where that door leads include how quickly the door turns, how we embrace our perspective at the present point of rotation, and who else is making their way through the door with us. Today was bittersweet…
The calendar says that fall will be here in two days, but for my creative self, it is spring that is dawning after a five month dormant season here. Unlike the plants and animals who know that they need fall and winter to rest and rejuvenate, I was unaware that my spirit was longing for that time. I have been doing other creative things, including other types of writing, but in the past few weeks, I have been hit…
“Amen” Sometimes it is just a little comfort food and an “amen” to the end of a long day rather than “cheers.” Simple things like a good cup of black coffee and graham crackers are a perfect end to the day as far as I am concerned.