Job in the Abstract

I’m still listening to the Bible in my car. I’m a captive audience out on the mail route. Some parts of the Bible are hard to wade through….I didn’t think I’d get through the first five books of the Old … Continue reading

how far?

I was running this morning and thinking. I can’t disconnect the two activities completely.  If I’m breathing I’m thinking. That doesn’t mean that if I’m running and I’m breathing hard that I’m thinking more than usual. It doesn’t mean that … Continue reading

action kills worry

I wake up early a lot these days. I don’t know if it’s genetics…or just getting a little older…or any of the reasons people can’t sleep in the morning…but I seem to wake up early. The other morning, I was … Continue reading

eyeballing

I’m working on a bathroom project these days. It should have been something simple. It’s not a full remodel…it’s just tearing out a short wall, rebuilding the wall, sheetrocking and taping and finishing the new wall, replacing the door with … Continue reading

missing

When someone goes missing in the woods, they send out a search party.  They don’t let another evening pass when they discover that a person isn’t where they need to be. But what if a person’s “never left the building” … Continue reading

what did he just say?

I was thinking about words again this morning. Yesterday, I closed my post with the word “immolation”. This morning, I woke up thinking about “emulation”. I also thought about “emollient”. That’s a pretty amazing thing to me….so many different words, … Continue reading

albatross

I built a skateboard once when I was on the cusp of really turning old and brittle. I’d found a skateboard truck…the part that attaches to the board and holds the wheels on…at a great price and decided to build … Continue reading

castles

“If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.” Henry David Thoreau So what happens if you slow down on your “castle building” … Continue reading

Reclaim Detroit

Oh my goodness. Don’t talk about the good things going on where it’s easy for good things to happen. Talk about the good things that are going on where it seems impossible for something good to happen. I think that … Continue reading

blow the carbon out

My Jeep started running funny the other day. It was idling kind of different…surging….running a little bit hotter than usual. It wasn’t anything really profound.  It was still running…had good power…started right up when I got ready to go again. … Continue reading