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It never ceases to amaze me how “re” words come to me. Yesterday, it was bumping into a friend at a cooler spot than my electricity-less home to work. Today, it was scrolling through LinkedIn and reading a post my friend John liked and the comments. John’s message is all about travel balance and how…

A fluke had our electricity off for a bit this afternoon, and I set out to find a cool place to work. I bumped in to my friend, Fred, who immediately asked me what my “re” word was for the day. Before he left we chatted about grocery shopping and how we could win-back some…

I have sat here for about an hour. Combining and recombining words. Hitting the delete key more than I’m hitting the keys that make words. I’m not going to lie, writing daily is hard, and it gets harder when I don’t read a lot or pre-write a post and skip a day. It’s not a…

Revulsion might set in if you watch a wake of vultures gathering around a corpse for a feast. The ugly bird of prey may seem like nothing but a garbage truck with a 7-and-a-half to 9-foot wingspan, but they’re really so much more beautiful than that. I’m giving them a second look. I’ve been reading…

Resolve means to reduce by analysis or to make clear or understandable. At least that’s what Merriam-Webster says. Keck and I were talking about resolving things at dinner. We’d been listening to a book called Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World. The book presents the idea that specialization kind of stiffles creativity. We…

Have you ever had something register with you? As in, that finally clicked into place? One meaning of that word in Merriam-Webster is  “a condition of correct alignment or proper relative position.” It’s almost a form of recognition but it goes a little further than that. I registered this when I was reading Madeleine L’Engle’s,…

Arise! Shine! For your light arrives!The splendor of the Lord shines on you! Isaiah 60:1 It happens every day. The sun rises and I should to with joy in my heart for another day. Keck is usually the morning person and talks a lot when he first wakes up. He’s wide awake and ready to go first…

Here’s an again word that I thought meant to table again. I was wrong. A retable is actually part of an altar. It’s said that the retable at Thornham Parva Church, Suffolk is one of the largest pieces of Medieval art. The retable, which is actually part of the altar, was created around 1330 by…

When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.” Franklin D. Roosevelt It’s said that several of our presidents have used this quote. It’s all about not giving up, about finding something in which you can put your hope and your trust and hold on to again and…