three-foot-tall delights
delightful observations yesterday of a gloriously joyful, very special little girl. and then more adventures today with small people. a little charmer with crystal blue eyes, a bright pink dress, red painted toenails and sparkly sandals held my hand in the church buffet lunch line. “this is fruit salad,” i said. “i want some of … Read more
cause for celebration
this week there were two grand events worth celebrating. i hope you noticed your calendar and were therefore able to join in with your own commemorations. the first, as you can almost not have not noticed (er, what?), was on wednesday, february 29th. that’s right: leap day! well, i forgot to leap, i must admit … Read more
the pieces she lost and found
“God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear though the earth gives way …” — psalm 46:1-2a — — — — — one year ago, someone got to see what the inside of my brain looked like. 365 days. five hundred, twenty-five thousand, six hundred minutes, … Read more
eat your veggies
tomorrow marks three years of being an official, honest-to-goodness copy editor. and the beginnings of countless adventures in the fruit and vegetable patch.
marvelous thing #1
today has been a beautiful, exciting, peaceful, relaxing day (for me, at least). it has rained a great deal of the day. i got to putter around a craft store with my mum. i got to sing songs to a beautiful Person with three amazingly talented people in rehearsal for the worship through music time … Read more
533 steps
psst — want to know a secret? well, it’s not that big of a secret. but i’m terribly, terribly afraid of heights. so one of the things i did in germany last week was climb the 533 steps to the top of the köln cathedral — as high, anyway, as they’ll let you go. it’s … Read more
around the world
at about this time last year, i was angrily dealing with the reality that i couldn’t go to germany on my church’s two-week trip because i had to have brain surgery. brain surgery, of all time-consuming, vacation day-sucking things! then it turned out no one went, after all, because there weren’t enough people who … Read more
the age of innocents
i have been thinking lately on what a beautiful thing innocence is. i don’t mean naivete, or obtuseness, or ignorance, or victorian strait-lacedness (for all they could be shocked so terribly i’m not sure they were really so innocent). no, i mean something much more ancient and new than that. perhaps it’s because i’ve been … Read more
