We're topping international headlines with our news of racially-charged violence, and I'm remembering how, after 9/11, my family's Ugandan sponsored child wrote to tell us she was praying for our country: she in whose country the LRA was kidnapping children and brutalizing communities while the world at large barely batted an eye. I've been trying…
learnings: February 2016
Today I join Emily P. Freeman of Chatting at the Sky to share things I learned in February. Chief Justice Antonin Scalia was a remarkable person -- I regret learning this only upon his death. The following quote from him is just one example among many I've heard this month pointing to his remarkableness: “God…
sorrows. and words.
A social media share led me to this list of "23 Perfect Words for Emotions You Never Realized Anyone Else Felt". Gathered from John Koenig's Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, the invented words are designed to "fill holes in the language," naming feelings for which, previously, there has been no name. "Monachopsis" describes "the subtle but persistent feeling…
August: learnings
Joining Emily P. Freeman again to share things I've learned in August. If you'd like to read what she and others have learned in August, or share your own list, click on this button to go over to the link-up on her blog, Chatting at the Sky: 1. I learned about a level of strategy I…
Five Minute Friday (on Saturday): Fill
Beheading children. Sawing them in two. Raping women. Killing men. Displaying heads on sticks in a park. Reports say that some parents, rather than see their children starve or fall into the wrong hands, have thrown their own children off cliffs. Chew on that. Can you swallow it? Does it fill you? In our world, today, they're…
July: learnings
Back in June, I wrote a post about things I'd learned in June, and then realized there was no June link-up for that. Now, though, it's the end of July, and Emily P. Freeman has invited us to share things we learned this summer in her link-up. So here I am, sharing for July. (Disclaimer:…
Between Blue Rocks 