Easter Embodied

My wife Kelli and I went to church on Easter. Actually we went to two churches because we hold separate memberships. But when we regrouped at home, we opted to fill the day with a trip to the local mountains with Buber the Dog. What a day for it too! At first it was a bit pointless as we drove to escape the exurban sprawl. Eventually we realized we may as well drop by an old ranch that Kelli has ties to. And then after that it was just a matter of cruising. Why not take a different road? Where does this road go, anyway? We’d never driven out to the north. It barely appears on the map. It’s not as smooth as the main road a few miles east. But it was Easter Sunday and the road beckoned.

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Wild and Wooly Lenten Journey

Of late I have burnt the midnight oil for JEM’s digital life. It has kept me busy for hours and hours. It keeps me off the streets, and off the boob tube. But as great as it is helping out this extensively (otherwise unemployed these last couple months), being holed up in the digital den is not like being in the real world. So there is a plan for that.

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Less is More

In the time after September 11, 2001, I was beginning to understand myself as part of a larger world. Rather than go to sleep the next day, I was beginning an awakening. At the age of 27, nearly 28 then, I was on time with having my worldview radically revised.

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