Considerations, Contemplations, Complications, and Decisions. I'm stuck at this point of life, where I now ask, "What's Next?"Now that I've got some free time in my life, I'm now at this point where a lot of questions are placed before me, and honestly, I'm not sure where to start. I've turned down the offer to do anything at the Pow Wow Camp. Not with the mission ...

I probably should be writing on something more important today like how fascist communists and hedonism are taking over America but all the astute people that read my blogs are already aware of that.  So instead I want to bring up some recent contemplations about church practices in America. What I say here is meant

© Kalle Kataila Kalle Katalia’s series Landscapes and Contemplations makes me think of the first expedition-survey photographers of the 19th century. By photographing the landscape with always having a figure in his images, Katalia reminisces the work of Francis Frith and his tour around Egypt in 1850’s. To judge and understand the massive size of the pyramids, sphinx and the ...

I'm exhausted. Part of the exhaustion has to do with the massage, the other aspect is the drinking and running around. I'm hurting. It feels like I just finished playing 10 games of 5 on 5 full court. I look at the clock: 11:06 a.m. I am about to miss the checkout time. I call downstairs to inquire if I can check out late. There is so much noise I cannot hear the woman on the other end ...

by Robert Wilkinson This post was inspired by a friend who was expressing deep and complex feelings around loss. Why is it that at times we feel former disappointments so deeply? Why is it that some things don't move us as they used to, while other yearnings become stronger? Today we'll explore these things and more. While these are common to us all as we age, sometimes they ...

I'm wondering why it's always freezing cold in my apartment in the morning, then becomes toasty around 1 p.m., only to be freezing again by the time I get home from work in the evening. This seems opposite the usual heating plan, that involves heating the place up in the morning, then letting it cool through the day when no one is home, before heating things again for the evening hours. ...