I don’t know where the sunbeams end
Although it took the whole afternoon, I brought my new van home and almost immediately experienced the exact opposite of buyer's remorse.
Try again tomorrow
I was too flabbergasted in the moment to respond, but on retrospect wondered if he would have had an opinion on the question of whether or not Donald Fagan had plagiarized Keith Jarrett
Transfiguration by Mornin’
On that night in the parking lot, the first note of that overture was enough to rocket me into previously unexperienced dimensions of Texasness. This experience may be as close as I ever come to understanding the experience that Peter, James, and John had at …
Can’t help but wonder where I’m bound
All dichotomies are false, or at least artificial, and we have René Descartes — if not Plato himself — to thank for our obsession with dualism. Still and all, I contain multitudes and desire to create a dichotomy of my own.
Je Me Reveiller Ce Matin
If you can't shake your ass to Clifton Chenier, your system sucks.
Time Traveler
If we rely on our experience of time to always be sequential, this experience will only seem sentimental. But if we allow ourselves to understand that eternity always touches the present moment, we can begin to experience the presence of people we remember.
Here it comes
He kept the self righteous smugness under wraps most of the time, but you could see it at the corners of his mouth whenever Peter got earnest or Thomas seemed needy. It's a wonder that this didn't happen sooner.
And I thought I was so smart
In a culture built on consumerism and, therefore, rife with false narratives constructed by marketing teams, it is a rare and difficult thing to live with authenticity. To do so is "foolishness" to use St. Paul's term, because it seems like the kind of authenticity …
To the commissary counter
Lazlo's smile still reached his cheeks, but it no longer creased the skin around his eyes. He'd show up for a cookout and everyone would act like they were happy to see him, but he inevitably wound up in a corner, picking at his plate. …
We are sick and tired of hearing your song
So whether you caucused with the Herodians and collaborated with the empire or provided the most visible yet respectable opposition as a member the Pharisees , you would have had a stake in preserving the status quo in some form in order to preserve your …
Come sunshine, come rain
I was happy like Maria in an alpine meadow on a sunny summer day. I noticed within me a willingness to experience that happiness, as if it were a type of weather. I knew that it would pass; not every day will be sunny, cerulean …
Not the highlight reel
When I was a child, my family owned a 1972 Chevrolet Kingswood Estate. We were a Chevrolet family, or at least that is how I thought of us. My mother drove the Kingswood Estate, which was Chevy's version of the kind of station wagon lampooned …