Approx. read time: 2:10 min. Giving thanks. I don’t do it nearly often enough. I think this every year as Thanksgiving Day approaches, and I feel overcome by a case of the guilties. And yet, I think: How small, that we set aside a day—a day!—to pause, remember, and give thanks, for material things… Read more »
Approx. read time: 2:40 min. I am in awe of the mammoth 12-story student housing complex going up a block and a half from my living room windows. I am in awe of the bright-orange safety-vest-clad worker who appears to have no physical supports, laboring away on the outer rim of what will be… Read more »
Approx. read time: 3:20 min. Alright, already! I hear God lamenting. If only my people—that would be all of us, everywhere—If only my people would understand: It’s all about love! No matter what the matter is, it’s all about love. I have a hunch that God is speaking about all-caps LOVE, the hidden force in… Read more »
Approx. 6:30 min. I feel exhausted, from a long hot summer. Exhausted from the Delta surge. Exhausted from outsized weather events. Exhausted from news of countries blowing up, caving in, shaking down, falling apart. Exhausted from news of devastated landscapes, raging wildfires, earth-ripping rains, vast arid wastelands, desiccated waterways, dead fish, dead birds, dead… Read more »
Approx. read time: 2:35 min. It’s hot. I just wish summer were over. And it’s bone dry. I wish the rains would come. Smoke from wildfires somewhere, everywhere, chokes the upper end of the valley. The nearby Coburg hills are long-distance blue. But I’ve got deeper aches in my heart right now. I watch Afghanistan… Read more »
Approx. read time: 3:15 min. I’m a little over an hour into my seven-hour hike along the McKenzie River Trail. It’s a beautiful morning. My aim today? Hike ten miles. Breezes waft up from the river, cool and fresh across my face, even as the mid-July temperature starts to climb from the overnight’s high 50s…. Read more »
Approx. read time: 3:10 min. This morning, as I approach the little downtown market I walk to every Sunday, I notice that it is closed. Well, it’s the Independence Day holiday, and I wasn’t connecting those particular dots. My option is to walk south eight blocks and over to a big supermarket which I… Read more »
Approx. read time: 2:50 min. The morning air feels crisp and promising as I wait for the No. 91 to whisk me up the west side of the Cascades, up the McKenzie River Corridor, for my weekly hike. As I wait, a tree swallow sails across a cloudless sky, perhaps on a breakfast run… Read more »
Approx. read time: 3:10 min. I start my hike up the Martin Street trailhead to the Ridgeline Trail in the south end of town. Immediately I notice how lush the forest has grown since I last was here. Maples are out, filtering morning sunlight to a pale golden green. Himalayan blackberries, along with other forest… Read more »
Approx. read time: 2:20 min. Living on Pandemic Time makes me forget that Easter was only four and a half weeks ago. Pentecost, only two and a half weeks ahead, seems a dot on the horizon. Easter and Pentecost—visible, colorful, joyful events. But these days I am noticing the invisible thread that connects the… Read more »
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