“The world is more magical, less predictable, more autonomous, less controllable, more varied, less simple, more infinite, less knowable, more wonderfully troubling than we could have imagined being able to tolerate when we were young.” — James Hollis Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life I turn fifty next year. Fifty. Fifty. Fifty. Fifty.… Continue reading The Party is Just Getting Started
I did some listening and reading and thinking over the past week, absorbing in shock one crazy story after another. So much to digest and process. So much that is confusing and horrifying. It would be easy to draw a circle around myself and plunk my head down deep in the sandy middle. My friend recently… Continue reading How a Rabbi Helps Me Sleep at Night
One of the few magazine subscriptions we renew without fail is Texas Monthly. Apart from being both informative and entertaining, it keeps my bluebonnet roots grounded and my stomach homesick for good Tex-Mex (lo siento, El Charro) . I was wonderstruck while reading the most recent edition which spotlights the photography of James H. Evans. Dedicating… Continue reading The Spiritual Discipline of Secret Beauty
So the past couple months I’ve been doing laundry with God and as you may know, laundry and I have a hate/hate relationship. I recently realized there was a growing mountain of mental laundry in my brain and heart. It accumulated rapidly and was actually starting to stink. God said we can come to him with… Continue reading Doing Laundry with God
Sheesh, its noisy right now. There’s a whole lot of people talking about a whole lot of things, right? And the word love is being tossed around like the cure for everything. Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins. This verse has been stuck in my craw all summer. It’s… Continue reading Love in Earnest
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