It’s early morning. Our toes sink deep into the cool water engulfing the shore-line. Every step, living foot prints…Like the ones we leave…but often don’t realize it. Every step, an imprinting, for others to see. Our search wasn’t careless. We knew there were treasures….And it was our goal (the goal of all God-breathed beings)…to find them. […]
Nepal, An Eagle, and Riding the Ferris Wheel of Life
I almost hit him with my car. He was standing in the road, on the right, doing….who knows what? Like a let-loose bus, I turned the corner racing speedily. Spotting him briefly, then slammed on my breaks. As if given grace, stopping just before his six foot wing span and white, bald head glides directly across […]
How Do You Measure A Life?
It surfaces on Facebook. A post I had never dreamed of. A family member’s father dies of a heart attack. His child missing saying, “goodbye”. And the words of the wise speak life in their pain, “don’t let walls, division, and bitterness pass up the opportunity to truly love”. I see them all over the place; […]
What a White Mom tells her African American Daughter about Ferguson
“It’s sad and scary.” She sits straight up at the pub-style chair before heading off to school. Her eyes just seeing fire-laden pictures of Ferguson burning the night before. She is eight. And contrary to everything in me, wanting to keep silent, wanting to shield her innocence from a world gone crazy, wanting to hide in […]