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Something good is hiding underneath the pine straw and dirt. Something good…and broken. This is an old Toyota truck that I used on the mail route for a bunch of years. One day, it broke out on the route. My … Continue reading
Category Archives: self help
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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