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When God gives one a heart of compassion …
it is understood that it will get broken. There is no way around it. I am still learning this. I find that is is both an honor and a privilege to watch the end of life come to pass. It isn’t easy nor...
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Learning from Gracie as she contines to grow …
is an experience in humility. She has Down’s Syndrome, but you wouldn’t know it by listening to or watching her. She runs, plays, swing, argues, wrestles, loves, hugs, manipulates and somehow ends up...
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Picking and culling …
is a real pain in the nether regions. I’ve been going through things in my house today, what to keep, what to trash and I find that there are really very few things I have any use for. It seems that...
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It has been a long few days …
or has it been weeks? I haven’t posted anything new. No blog posts. No photographs. Nothing. I have been in a holding pattern of sleepwalking, nightmares and erotic dreams that leave me confused,...
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When the wheel never stops turning …
life can become more of a trial than a joy. The thought process becomes so discombobulated with the inundation of information and images that simply focusing on what is relevant becomes a near...
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A moment of clarity …
is priceless. Like fine wine from a stellar year. A bottle unopened and virginal in it’s uniqueness. A moment of clarity when all of the world is in color, without shades of gray, without confusion...
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Trust …
a small word and yet it holds an incredible amount of power. What is trust, anyway? Mr. Webster defines it as “assured reliance on the character, ability, strength, or truth of someone or something”....
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Being human means that …
we open ourselves up for things that maybe, if we weren’t human, we wouldn’t otherwise know. We open ourselves up to disappointment. To hurt. To humiliation. To joy. To love. To faith and friendship....
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And then there was light …
beautiful, blinding, mind-boggling, life-altering light. That is the nature of bi-polar disorder, or in the more politically correct lingo, manic-depressive disorder. The verbiage doesn’t change the...
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I feel …
good. I feel good. Yes, I said it and yes I mean it. I feel good. It has been an incredibly difficult week with incredibly difficult patients and incredibly difficult news from friends, and yet,...
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Southern hospitality …
is alive and well in Lexington, KY. I know this because I was recently there and found myself in the most precarious of predicaments. Lexington is a diverse place, full of rich history, beautiful...
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Sometimes, at Christmas …
people are sad. They are lonely and grieving and sorrowful for things they can’t change. Even happy people get sad during this time of year. They start thinking about what they have or haven’t done....
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Lunch with a friend …
turned into a five-hour visit. Five hours. Just visiting. The waitress came by regularly for the first 45-minutes. After that, we became a novelty. She would still come by and offer service, but it...
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The word of the year …
has been the topic of many a blog entry, twitter post and, if I were still on facebook, I’m sure also, many facebook posts. It is something that people seem to be chasing, seeking and trying...
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The thing about money …
is that it is only really important when you need it but don’t have it. Most of us are working class people who know how to make a penny squirm. I know I do, and yet, there are times when I don’t have...
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Death is imminent …
it is something that every one of us will, at some time, face. I am saddened this night because someone dear to my heart passed away. I have tried to rationalize it and understand it, but death is...
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Standing outside in the snow …
is one of the most freeing of experiences. I liken it to standing in the midst of a summer rain while nature falls all around, touching, caressing, permeating my very being and making me one with its...
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Friends are like a Robert Frost poem …
or at least real friends are. I’m talking about the ones who take you at face value and don’t hold your weirdness, insane moments or idiosyncrasies against you. They ignore you when you talk to...
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In the midst of the Polar Vortex …
my heat goes out, or at the very least makes it painfully obvious that it is planning, in the very near future, to take an extended vacation. No phone, no lights, no motor car; not a single luxury....
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Through His creation …
He speaks to me. Who, you say? Why Jesus, of course. How, you ask? By showing me what He sees through the eyes He sees them with. And by allowing me to capture on film that which He chooses to show me....
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