A week ago we turned on the TV. Sound came out. No picture. Currently our TV is nothing more than an immensely large speaker. Immensely. So I will have to get a new one, some time. But, well, there just isn’t time right this moment. I mentioned the situation to my coworker, Jodi, and she offered an extra TV they […]
Heritage
There are times that my family’s long connection with the institution where I work is complicated, but more often than not it is a benefit. Sometimes it is funny. Sometimes it is bittersweet. Sometimes, it’s just nice. This morning my boss said, “I need someone to start a ‘Centennial’ box.” I volunteered. So, sitting on my desk, looking for a […]
10th Hour Breakfast
Eggs, waffles, pancakes, bacon, sausage, cereal, pastries…you name it, 10th Hour Breakfast has it. Yes, that’s breakfast. In the 10th hour post meridian (aka 10 pm). For 300 students. Who sing “The Twelve Days of Christmas” table by table, led by the Jazz Band. Welcome to Finals Week.
Extravagance
“What Jesus said to [Mary in John 12], and those around Him as well including Judas, was ‘she has done a beautiful thing and wherever the Gospel is preached what she has done will be remembered.’ That is an amazing commendation for someone like me who tends to work from the heart, who tends to work with precious and costly […]
Men will grow in the oven.
A few weeks ago I needed to make cookies, and I had a hankering for gingerbread. And I also had molasses in the cupboard. And in the back of my brain was a memory that the best gingerbread cookies I’d ever had were from a Christmas recipe book that my uncle and aunt gave my mom for Christmas about 15 […]
I wish…
I wish I could say I had this delightful day wandering the streets of the City and topped it all with finding the perfect gift. But, in reality, as most trips to the City do, it actually looked a lot like this: And that perfect gift? The almost perfect one I found was about twice what I’d budgeted…so that won’t […]
Freedom to Flee – er, Fly
I get itchy feet. I haven’t often, in recent years, gotten to indulge their itchiness. But I get them, just the same. Next spring, I get to go. Hop on a plane and cross an ocean. But I needed to update my passport. It was nearly at the end of its life. So I sent it off for renewal, and […]
Bright Morning
At a biblical university, even the geese walk on water. It made me laugh, which was a delight on this bright morning. My sister wrote about comic relief yesterday, at the end of the surgery. She likened the moment to the steam coming off a pressure cooker – laughter. And this morning, in the bright sunshine, I gloried in the […]
HONK!
In these dark, predawn hours I’m imagining the household awakening – ZEB crying a bit, his Nana or Grandpa comforting him. Mom’s hands are busy with Meimei, his little sister, and they shake a little as she bathes her in the special soap and dresses her in the freshly laundered clothes. Dad helps out, or just stands behind Mom with […]
The things we don’t see
I’ve walked past the display for months now. I helped, a little, in setting it up. I have my favorite pieces – the mask with the enormous beak, the woven rugs. But I never saw this one before. Forced to go and take more photos of the Charis: boundary crossing exhibit for a project I’m working on, my eyes were […]