The view out of my study window is not, as a writer, what one would necessarily hope for. There is a beautiful Sweetgum tree in my front yard that is almost perfectly centered in this window. Beyond, where when we moved here there was only pasture land, I have a...
Impart
In a recent article there was a line that struck me. The article, by Clay Tarver of the New York Times, was on Jason Everman who played with Nirvana and Soundgarden prior to becoming an Army Ranger and working in Special Forces. Near the end of the article, Everman says,...
Creating Space
Creativity requires space. Whether you are doing the creating or you want to give God room to make some changes in your life. If you don’t make space for something to grow, much like in a garden, you are choking the life out of anything that strives to develop. I...
This Pain is an Illusion
As I age, in subtle ways, my body is telling a story to which I do not wish to listen. This is just the mortal coil which creaks and groans with the settling of time and wear and tear of miles. Yet, I know that it is just a barrowed...
Changing the World
The Vitruvian Journey is about how we can improve as individuals. This presupposes that as we improve we accept the onus to improve the world around us through our actions. I do still believe that one person’s actions can have a butterfly effect that ripples throughout the world. It is,...