Daily Life
Years ago there was a significant part of me that would acknowledge, “I talked like a child; I thought like a child; I reasoned like a child.” I suppose deep within each of us there will always exist some grappling with that immaturity. 12 years ago my immaturity was altered.
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(FYI: This is not a sports post. I promise.) In an epic shootout, neither team seemed able to miss. Each was continuously on the offensive. They would sling the ball down the field, seemingly with ease, with previous rumors of solid defense having eerily dissipated as the game continued to
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Hate. That’s a hard concept for me. Truthfully, I think it’s a hard concept for most of us. We find things that make us mad, things that annoy us, things that drive us crazy, and then we often justify hate. I’ll quote my kids... “I hate spiders,
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“I have a serious concern to bring up with you, my friends... I’ll put it as urgently as I can: you must get along with each other. You must learn to be considerate of one another, cultivating a life in common. I bring this up because some brought a
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Once again there was a full weekend slate of games, with each earnestly attempting to win. The challenge is that such an account could easily depict either the National Football League or the President and Congress. At least in the NFL, a struggling team takes more responsibility for the situation
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Last week I had a tough conversation with a leader in my church. It was tough because of the subject matter, as we disagree on a way to solve a current challenge. It was not tough in the way we related. It was not tough because there was a lack
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I keep thinking about the sequence of events unraveling this week and last... ... about the shootings in D.C., Chicago, and Kenya... ... about the church bombing in Pakistan... ... about renewed attempts to confront global warming... ... about the Sec. of State signing a controversial U.N. arms regulation treaty... ... about all
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Allow me to briefly recap 2 outrageous weekend acts, in order to transition to the outrage... In Kenya... In an upscale Nairobi shopping mall — in a situation that remains fluid as of this writing — militants have shot and killed over 60 persons. According to the New York Times, “masked gunmen
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Bad things happen on planet Earth. Like last week... primarily according to USA Today: Federal investigators believe Aaron Alexis cleared a security checkpoint with his contractor identification and carried a shotgun into building 197 at the Navy Yard in Washington D.C. Alexis reportedly began firing at people indiscriminately from
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One of the questions I routinely ask is: “What don’t we know?” Opinion, passion, and policy are often drummed up based on reactions to incomplete information. In other words, we allow incompleteness — which may thus equate to inaccuracy — to frequently — often blindly — serve as justification. I wonder... What don’
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And one by one, so they came... Attorneys and actuaries... Politicians and professors... Or my sweet friend, the creative, comic book store owner... Pharmacists and philanthropists... Owners and operators... Salesmen and stay-at-home moms... Moms and dads of several, of some... adopted or none... Single parents and parents who&
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With the current Colorado flooding — p.s. the pictures are jaw-dropping — did you notice the official, early alert from the National Weather Service? AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER/BOULDER CO 941 AM MDT THU SEP 12 2013 UPDATE... MAJOR FLOODING/FLASH FLOODING EVENT UNDERWAY AT THIS TIME