During some spring cleaning, I noticed a fly, dried up and clinging hopefully to my window screen. Usually, the bottom window track is the place to catch fly parts, but this death was unusual and I took notice. What happened here? While it seems reasonable that the fly tried to exit through the screen, why did it…
A year ago, I retold this old biblical story about Ezekiel and the dry bones. Like all good stories, it still resonates with us today. This is my take on the story from Ezekiel 37. Once upon a time, a tragic prophet, demoralized by his captors, had a dream. In his dream, he was lifted up…
During this season of Lent, our eyes are turned towards war. While we are not actively under attack, we bear witness to the dominion, subjugation, and exploitation of our fellow humans.We see the terror, the fight, the resilience, and the unknown. We ask ourselves seemingly unanswerable questions. We cry tears for wounds we can’t heal,…
As my hands change with age, I think about the hands that raised me. With stoic, Swedish charm, my grandfather would pull a carrot from the ground, wipe the dirt carelessly on his hip, and give it to me to eat. Memory corrodes over time and I swear that carrot was as big as a…
My least favorite part of learning to play the piano was music theory. While I didn’t mind sketching treble clefs and bass clefs, it was learning the terms and symbols that bored me to abandon the theory book on many afternoons. Avoiding the boring stuff worked until the day of my lesson and I’d be…
Every day, Chance takes me for a walk. Technically, I am the one holding the leash, but he is the one leading me down the road. Chance is our Frenchie Pug who came to us as a pup one week before the covid lockdown. He soothed our weary and frayed emotions while peeing on everything…
In 2020, Priya Parker released her book, The Art of Gathering, in the midst of a global lockdown. As we were all canceling all the gatherings, she was releasing her work on how our gatherings make up collective meaning and connections over time. As someone who hosts gatherings regularly, I was curious about her thoughts and…
After significant calculation of the travel time of seismic waves, geophysicist and seismologist, Inge Lehmann published her research that the earth was made up of three layers. She noticed over time that seismic waves were bent, leading her to identify secondary and primary waves creating shadow zones behind the earth’s core. While she submitted these…
Today, I stopped and noticed a fly, dried up and clinging hopefully to my window screen. Usually, the bottom window track is the place to catch fly parts, but this death was unusual and I took notice. What happened here? While it seems reasonable that the fly tried to exit through the screen, why did…
It seems ironic to get blue in the summertime. But, it happens. The buildup of events, the crashing reality of projects unfinished, and summer fatigue do wear us out. Perhaps you find yourself weary and tired. You are not alone. It is easy to believe that our personal feelings are unique and unshared. Shame and…
