The amount of bad news is overwhelming. Is it okay to admit sometimes I’m a little disturbed that it is possible access the terrible, no good, very bad things happening in every country as they are happening? It’s too much. If you’re a doer …
7 Things Sunday
One. Halloween happened. I went to a party in a big, beautiful old house. Pumpkin carving, Harry Potter themed cocktails, a portrait drawing studio, dance floor, and lots of good food shared by friends in killer costumes. The entire cast of …
7 Things Sunday
One. Colorado is always stunning, but in the fall…my god. You just want to pin your eyes open so you don’t miss a split second of the beauty. Yo Iowa, I really love you, but if you could grow some …
Just give me a candy heart.
Her armor is thin. She knows how this ends: the delicate ones bend. Oh God, thicken her skin when its arrows they send. She’s boarding up the door. She knows how this ends: trusting and expecting unearths the worst. Oh …
Strength & Weakness
Has anyone else ever become painfully aware that their greatest strength is also their most maddening weakness? Someone recently commented on how much I give of myself to other people…and they said it (probably unintentionally) in a way that made …
Longing pt. 1
I long to share and break bread. For rectangular tables with rows of strangers-turned-friends. To hear the sound of forks scraping on plates and inebriated laughter hovering in the air. For the day’s worries to dim like the light and …
7 Things Sunday
One. Last night I went to an astronomy class with Colyn and Hilary. It happened to be National Astronomy Day. We didn’t know. The room was surprisingly full and the lecturer was this old man named Vern who I immediately …
7 Things Sunday
I’ve been home for a little over a month now. I don’t really know how to describe what the transition back feels like. It’s not bad. In fact, it feels really normal and fine in a lot of ways. I …
Flames
I’ve been going through 40 days of contemplative prayer. If you have no idea what I just said…basically it involves reading a passage and waiting for a word or phrase to stick out to you and then meditating on that. …
Good Grief
People aren’t very good with grief. Grief comes in shapes and sizes. It comes whenever life changes, whether they’re tiny or huge changes. Change is often a form of loss, and loss needs to be grieved to some extent. For example, moving …
