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August 29, 2014
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Family and Parenting
“I love the way the blackberry bushes smell this time of year,” he said to me recently. I, having grown up in the high desert, wasn’t sure what he meant, and so I asked for clarification. He laughed, a short chuckle. “Huh. I don’t know. They smell like ripe blackberries.” * * * * * … Continue reading "Blackberries"
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August 20, 2014
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Family and Parenting
The world is a broken place. We need not look far to find evidence of this fact; it confronts us every day in our frailty, in our humanity, in the ways our own relationships falter and our own efforts fall short. Still, there are weeks when mankind’s desperate need for God seems to blazon itself … Continue reading "A Broken Place"
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June 30, 2014
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Loving God
In the past few weeks, on the days when I have been awake and motivated enough to squeeze in a short jog before Jonathan leaves for work, Katie and I have traded our long morning walk for the never-ending task known as yard work. I am strategic about my timing, putting her into the Ergo immediately … Continue reading "On Yard Work, or, Time Well Spent"
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June 13, 2014
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This Thing Called Life
Katie and I have settled into a new morning routine: she wakes up (far earlier than I would, perhaps, choose to be awake), we cuddle and coo and stretch for a bit, she eats, I eat, and then I strap her into the Ergo and we walk. Or rather, I walk and she sleeps. It’s … Continue reading "Daisies"
Read MoreWe had a thunderstorm earlier this week. It came late in the evening, as we were settling into bed, and so we lay there with the lights off and the windows open and listened to the rumbling thunder. The storm was distant enough that we couldn’t see individual strikes, but the lightning brightened the sky, … Continue reading "Lightning"
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