Tuesday Thoughts
Thoughts of an Optimistic Writer
Tuesday Thoughts
Thoughts of an Optimistic Writer
Tuesday Thoughts: What If It Isn’t a Joke?
“Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak out and remove all doubt.”
–President Abraham Lincoln
Well, we made it through another April Fools’ Day. Like Halloween, not my favorite day of frivolity. Call me a Donnie Downer, but such celebrations are nearly devoid of any redeeming value. Don’t get me wrong; I like to kid my family and friends just as much or more than the next person, but I don’t devote an entire day to it.
That […]
Tuesday Thoughts: What Hath God Wrought?
“Oh beautiful, for spacious skies; For amber waves of grain; For purple mountain majesties; Above the fruited plain.”
–America the Beautiful (Katherine Lee Bates; 1893)*
Last week, my family and I spent a wonderful week in Arizona with a million of our closest tourist friends. Most of our time was in Sedona and at the Grand Canyon, where parking lots were packed, traffic was heavy, and hikers were abundant.
Yes, it was Spring Break, but the attraction was the landscape: the jaw-dropping, knee-buckling […]
Tuesday Thoughts: Of Pride, Power, and Prejudice
“The self is persistent. Quietly, subtly, ingeniously, it works itself back to the center.”
–from Earth and Altar (Eugene Peterson, theologian and author)
Well, folks, it’s Super Tuesday, and by the end of the day two candidates for POTUS will have all but sewn up their respective nominations. They’re also the two people almost seven out of ten Americans don’t want to see four more years of. Yet, they soldier on–the critics, pollsters, and voters be damned.
One candidate demands total fealty. If […]
Tuesday Thoughts: Why Shouting Into the Wind Isn’t the Answer
“The lady doth protest too much, methinks.”
–from Hamlet (William Shakespeare)
Of all my young patients, I loved three-year-olds the most. At that age, children begin to break away from their dependence on their parents and experiment with independence. The “Let me do it!” stage.
Ideally, after two years of consistent and loving parenting, three-year-olds feel emboldened to test the world … until someone or something throws them a “curveball.” Then, they run back to their parents–back to the comfort and security they’ve […]
Tuesday Thoughts: What If It Isn’t a Joke?
“Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak out and remove all doubt.”
–President Abraham Lincoln
Well, we made it through another April Fools’ Day. Like Halloween, not my favorite day of frivolity. Call me a Donnie Downer, but such celebrations are nearly devoid of any redeeming value. Don’t get me wrong; I like to kid my family and friends just as much or more than the next person, but I don’t devote an entire day to it.
That […]
Tuesday Thoughts: What Hath God Wrought?
“Oh beautiful, for spacious skies; For amber waves of grain; For purple mountain majesties; Above the fruited plain.”
–America the Beautiful (Katherine Lee Bates; 1893)*
Last week, my family and I spent a wonderful week in Arizona with a million of our closest tourist friends. Most of our time was in Sedona and at the Grand Canyon, where parking lots were packed, traffic was heavy, and hikers were abundant.
Yes, it was Spring Break, but the attraction was the landscape: the jaw-dropping, knee-buckling […]
Tuesday Thoughts: Of Pride, Power, and Prejudice
“The self is persistent. Quietly, subtly, ingeniously, it works itself back to the center.”
–from Earth and Altar (Eugene Peterson, theologian and author)
Well, folks, it’s Super Tuesday, and by the end of the day two candidates for POTUS will have all but sewn up their respective nominations. They’re also the two people almost seven out of ten Americans don’t want to see four more years of. Yet, they soldier on–the critics, pollsters, and voters be damned.
One candidate demands total fealty. If […]
Tuesday Thoughts: Why Shouting Into the Wind Isn’t the Answer
“The lady doth protest too much, methinks.”
–from Hamlet (William Shakespeare)
Of all my young patients, I loved three-year-olds the most. At that age, children begin to break away from their dependence on their parents and experiment with independence. The “Let me do it!” stage.
Ideally, after two years of consistent and loving parenting, three-year-olds feel emboldened to test the world … until someone or something throws them a “curveball.” Then, they run back to their parents–back to the comfort and security they’ve […]