Today, during my lunch break, as I relaxed into the plastic backing of a booth at El Pollo Loco, I started reading a novel over my chicken carnitas bowl. Because of the general din and chatter of the lunch hour, I missed a call on my cell phone. I noticed this as I walked out [...]
Archive for March, 2009
The Crazies.
Posted in Reflection on March 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
the present
Posted in Reflection on March 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It is not lost on me, of course, that this should be happening, now, during Lent.
It is also not lost on me that His suffering should envelope mine, and me.
Posted in One liner on March 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The worst part of writing with profanity is I will have trouble reading it as a bedtime story for my kids.
Clovers and Rejection
Posted in Snippet on March 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday, during my sandwich creating process, I saw a very strange thing. As I drew my hand ouf of the plastic bag of the prewashed spinach, I saw a thin, greenish line. I picked at it, uncertainly, half-expecting it to be a strand of leprechaun hair. In fact, it was a clover.
A three leaf clover [...]
Do
Posted in Reflection on March 2, 2009 | 1 Comment »
It is an ironically imprecise, indefinite word. After all, if the word is to connote some concrete action, such as placing both hands on the ground and lifting your torso and legs into as straight of a gravity-defying line as possible, then why does it have surprisingly little action of its own?
If you try to [...]