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  • Spring is in the air

    Some call it Pollen. I had originally wanted to sit down every Sunday and to write, even if not a full post. Not as a rule (I try to avoid those) but to develop the pattern and to build up a few blogs in case I ever wanted to really publish these. If you have…

  • Forks in the road

    Yet here I am with ice cream and in need of a spoon. A good deal of my internal monologue and prayer life has been spent pondering the questions like, Where would you have me go Lord? Should I leave here? Should I return to…? I am not sure if it is due to the…

  • I love a rainy day

    On more than one of my “favorite days” on the Appalachian Trail (A.T.) it was raining. On one particular day in the Smokies I was able to fully understand why they jokingly refer to it as the Soakies. Take any chance of avoiding puddles or mud away and just embrace the suck. Not everyone at…

  • Sides

    Apparently they want us to start picking teams again. It’s getting easier and easier for me to see that neither “side” politically gives a damn about the people. With the extremes on either side getting louder and louder it seems likely to get worse before it gets better. I pray I am wrong, And allow…

  • Baby it’s cold outside

    Baby it’s cold outside

    As someone who lives with depression I can say that I feel this divide between myself and others. I have good friends, ones I spend a lot of time with and real effort into being close to, but there is a void. Please sir, before you start down your God shaped hole theory, consider the…

  • Hard time(s)

    Hard time(s)

    I truly do love this life, even if some of the times have been pretty hard. Today is pretty hard. This pain is particularly hard because it is not really mine to own, I had to see a loved one off to prison today. It is a sympathetic pain for them, they are facing the…

  • What’s in a month?

    Most of us realize by now that life can change in an instant. Likely by now someone you know has had a medical event that changes their life as a diagnosis was read, or an accident forever limited their freedom. Maybe that is your story or perhaps your life has had other struggles but have…

  • Working, all the livelong day

    I started my “work” a little later in life around 40, before then I was in what could best be described as “autopilot”. It wasn’t that I was never really present, to me it seems like I was hyper aware of the here and now and couldn’t understand why everyone else was always up in…

  • As you wish

    When I am at my healthiest, I try to fight against my natural urge to turn on the TV, to find some show to binge. I tell myself things like you’ve done enough thinking for the day, why not just turn on the tv and be entertained for a few hours. My mind usually reminds…

  • The List (part 2)

    What does Love Look like? I look for Love in all its forms, kind of study it to see how it’s made and who gets to experience it, mostly because I really want to experience it. I started realizing how much Love had been shown to me by God and my Grandma a little late.…