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 »
Approx. read time: 3:15 min. It’s early in the dawn hour, my hour of Morning Prayer. The psalmist this morning is yearning for God. Panting, hungering, thirsting for God. I gaze out the window toward the eastern horizon, and allow a space for the yearning to settle in. I too will know this yearning deeply,… Read more »
Approx. read time: 2:25 min. For peace of mind, I limit myself to two news dips per day. These days I notice the word infrastructure floating often across my screen. Infrastructure. Being a word person, I wonder: What’s the underlying meaning to this strong weight-bearing word? Webster refers me to infra, a prefix meaning… Read more »
Approx. read time: 2:10 min. I am thinking, today, of a moment in human history that was never actually witnessed, never recorded. Yet an event recounted down through the ages, launching a transformation of human consciousness. I am thinking of the moment of Jesus’ resurrection from the tomb. In the dark that precedes the dawn,… Read more »
Approx. read time: 3:10 min. I wouldn’t say I live with wild excess, or even with unthinking excess. I live pretty simply. Prayer each day is front-and-center. And almsgiving? I try to not let it dip when times get tough. So Lent poses a challenge: What can I do that will be meaningful in this… Read more »
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