January 2015 – Page 5 – 300 words a day

Old gloves

I have this pair of old gloves. My parents gave them to me when I was in high school. They were not top-quality back then, but they still work fine. However, I’ve had to stitch up the seams about a million times – even this week. Our culture functions around the concept of planned obsolescence. […]

Spiritual training: Training plans

Happy New Year! We’re talking about spiritual training this week. We looked at finding one thing to work on and at finding examples of maturity and specific skills and capacities to develop. The fourth question is: What would a training plan look like? When you are training for a marathon (or 5K), you can find plans that […]