A record of the incessant and trivial chatter running through my head.
Monthly Archives: April 2013.jpg) What goes up and down but never moves? That was the riddle I carefully printed on a small piece of paper and taped on top of the Tupperware that contained Charlie’s sandwich. Below the riddle I had drawn an arrow directing him to turn the paper over. Stairs, the paper read. I placed the sandwich […] .jpg) . . . I struggle to blog. It seems irrelevant. It seems unimportant. Useless. My sister called me at 3:14 p.m. and told me what had happened. I didn’t turn on the news. . . a decision we have made to protect little eyes. Instead we left the house. Together the five of us laid […] .jpg) Back in October, when we put our house on the market, we cleaned out our junk drawers. There were two of them. Both were located in our kitchen. (isn’t that where all junk drawers are?) One junk drawer was on one side of the room and one on the other. They were filled to the […] .jpg) “Time stands still best in moments that look suspiciously like ordinary life. . . ” –Story People Story people so perfectly states what I feel. We’ve been doing a lot of ordinary life lately. In our bare feet. More to come later. . . Have a wonderful Thursday. .jpg) There are times when I refer to this space as “Sacred”. Not in the get-down-on-your-knees-bow-your-head-and-say-a-prayer kind of sacred. Rather, it is sacred in the sense that this space is set apart for a particular purpose. I respect this space. I value it. For me, this space is sacred because it holds our story. Our memories. […] |
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