300 words a day

I worry about timing a lot. It’s part of the idea of kairos, an awareness of the moment. The discipline to notice the person and the situation and the need in this moment and to choose the content that fits here and now.  (I wrote more about it once.) I work hard to get just […]

God. People will die today. In this building, in this community, in this world. People will be born, today, too. In this building, in this community, in this world. The rest of us will be living between birth and death. We will be remembering, some of us, those who are gone. We will be longing […]

Recently, while I was sick, I was talking with myself about taking with God about my cold. I was struggling with cough and congestion and not sleeping. And at the same time, people I care about were waiting to see what direction a hurricane would go. How close it would come to their house? And, […]

Ben loves to feed the birds in our back yard. Or, more accurately, he loves working alongside one grandparent or another. They pour seeds from a big bag into smaller jugs, saved from their original use as litter jugs for the cats Ben’s growing up with. The pouring involves an oversize funnel, a big scoop. […]

Rich is always trying new things. And in this one, you will get to listen to him! +++ We decided to try something new for the third FREEDOM TOUR. The first 2 years were 500-mile tours. 2015 was the first year we added a one-day ride. A bunch of people signed up – and I […]