Live With Flair
(my daily blog)
Forgetting What’s Stored
I’ve been placing batch after batch of roasted tomatoes into my deep freezer that sits like a sleeping white polar bear in the back of my
Your Roadblock
Today I remind a student writing about life’s roadblocks that “the impeded stream is the one that sings.” Wendell Berry wrote this in his poem
“Small disconnected facts, if you take note of them, have a way of becoming connected.” Walker Percy
I wake up and scroll through my phone to learn about a Wendell Berry quote I had forgotten. At the end of his poem, “Manifesto:
Warm, Baking Things
Last night at our gathering of grad students, one friend arrived with a bowl of homemade cookie dough. He turned on the oven, we got
Late Afternoon Sunlight and The Weary Heart
I often leave in the afternoon for a quick walk around the block. I love late afternoon sunlight. Seeing how that finger of light stretches
Training Your Mind In Hope
Last night I shared with women at church my journey to “train my mind in hope” based on the biblical principles of Jeremiah’s choosing to
Lightening Your Load
I’m trudging across the campus with a bag full of library books to return. My arms ache and the morning sun feels much hotter than
“Glory be to God for dappled things.”
As I walk today under a pelting of fat green and brown acorns that I then crunch underfoot, I remember one of my favorite poems,