It was the start of a hard Christmas season. There are pieces missing from my life now which were all comfortably settled in place just two years ago.
This Is My Story
Story, story, story. The word echoed through my weekend, shaped by various tongues.
The Story Needs to Be Told
Four years ago, I walked through the gas chambers at Auschwitz. I stood in between the barracks buildings and imagined Nazi soldiers unloading masses of humanity from trains and pushing them along the gravel roads toward extermination. I stood in concrete buildings looking through glass into rooms filled with the belongings of the people who lost their lives there: one […]
Poppy
Christine sent me a text message today with a photo of a poppy. “Remembrance Day poppy. Worn by Canadians for the two weeks leading up to November 11,” she wrote. When Trent told her they wore them for two weeks, she tells me she replied, “You guys are serious about this.” Canada poured a lot into World War I. Five […]
Pairings
There are certain food and beverage pairings that make two delicious things even more delightful. Take Kenyan coffee and grapefruit, for example. Or sharp cheddar and red wine. But there are other pairings that shouldn’t be attempted, one of which I’d forgotten about until this evening, when I happened upon it again. I used to go to a Vespers service […]
Baseball
It’s Game 7 of the World Series. Though I stopped tracking the postseason baseball closely when the Tigers collapsed, I discovered in myself this evening a great urge to watch it all come together to whatever end. Baseball’s always been around. I went to at least one game a year regularly as a child, and Dad typically made sure to […]
The Stalker Robin
I was trying to do some organizing and purging of digital files this evening. A friend mentioned on Facebook yesterday how full of junk her digital files were, and commented, “I don’t think I would have let them get so messy if they were physical and I could see them.” I’m in the same boat. I do tend to collect […]
Tiny Horse in a Turtle Costume
I keep having to remind myself that Halloween is coming. This is the first time in my living-out-on-my-own adult life that I’ve lived in a place where I might get trick-or-treaters. I actually had to buy candy. Sure, I’ve only seen six kids in my neighborhood, but you never know how far they’ll come from on Halloween. I think I […]
Pie
I’m convinced that God made pie to bring me joy. I baked my first pie of the fall season this evening. It’s a little shocking to me that I’ve managed to delay this long. I think I may have been actually tricked into delaying by the southern temperatures that have hovered closer to 70 degrees than 60. I don’t hate […]
Oops, I Forgot
I’ve got a good memory. One of the reasons I chose the theme of exploring memories was because I knew I had lots of them. But here’s the thing: I know it’s beginning to diminish. Last night, I forgot to write a blog post. No big deal, but not something I would have forgotten five years ago. It’s strange to […]