MAKE LIGHT WORK
Last Sunday night, Travis and I went to a concert at The Mothership, a fantastic outdoor venue on the Hondo Mesa, on the way to the Gorge Bridge. We were in Taos for a long weekend with no plans beyond…
RAISE A GLASS
It’s wise to be aware of how we’re looking the world. The “glass” through which we view it. We’re always gazing in and out through windows — sometimes through beautiful stained glass, other times through fingerprint smears and grime. Many…
INSIDE OUT
Whenever I’m doing a show, I try to remember what a Stage Manager once told me. I don’t remember what we were working on when she said it. (It might’ve been when I was in college, maybe West Side Story.)…
SWEET SPOT
I really lucked out in the Father department. Bob Groves was a wonderful man — you would’ve loved him, everybody did. He was an especially great Dad and role model for me, a sensitive boy in a conservative small town.…
WON FOR ALL
“Whatever you are meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.”— Doris Lessing I don’t think I’d ever heard of Doris Lessing before this week. A Nobel Prize winning novelist. I know I’ve never read her books.…
SWEAR TO GOD
In my decade-and-a-half of ministry, I’ve been called-out a number of times for being vulgar. People tell me that coarse language and naughty humor are inappropriate in sacred space. I’ve heard it from strangers and from close friends, including those…
MOTHER NATURE
I spent a lot of time this week scouring collections of poetry and pouring through my usual go-to books for Sunday morning readings. I searched online for hours, googling: “Mother’s Day poems… SHORT Mother’s Day poems… Mother’s Day poems that…
C is for CATS
At the beginning of the month, we had a really wonderful trip to see my family in the northeast. The entire week, every part of the journey, exceeded all expectations for both relaxation and enjoyment. And I returned home feeling…
IN A PICKLE
When I’m worked up and stressed out, my angst usually arises out of sense that I’ve got to “get it right.” Almost always, there’s something that appears to have gone off the rails — maybe a minor thing, or sometimes…
THE HOLE THING
This may be a bit obvious as far as wordplay goes, but I’m thinking about “whole” and “holes” this week. The Whole Thing and the The Hole Thing. At first, they seem almost like utter opposites. The former means intact…