Well, since summer has been late to show its warm and sunny face I’ve had some extra time to shuffle papers and sort books and all those indoor organizing kinds of things that really must be done but somehow get put off… I have a closet full of books and papers from seemingly countless years of […]
Listen to this sound reasoning. (I’m still reading in Judges) Here the Ammonites are, itching to go to war against Israel to reclaim some lost territory, and Jephthah runs them through a short history lesson, reminding them of their defeat many years before and concluding with these words… “Will you not take what your god […]
The older I get, the more I value it—peace and quiet. Not just a literal quietness but a calm unruffled-ness, an absence of strife… but what is a mother to do? The kids may get older, the tensions subtler, (or at least not over blocks and toys), but the concerns of a mother only get […]
Got out for the last sail of the summer season yesterday as a Southeaster was blowing up! The sun was shining, it’s true, but the wind was doing a pretty good job of clarifying that summer is indeed gone! So with sails fully reefed, one hand on the tiller, one set to release the sheets […]