Thinking this morning about my desire to write. It’s always there, right behind my eyeballs — a distracting alternative to my to-do list. All the important, return-positive things I should be doing. And this particular morning, this phrase popped into mind unbidden. Writing is how the soul speaks. I do all kinds of speaking in […]
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Welcome to an experiment.
I was recently inspired (read: challenged) by one of my illustrious siblings (Chris) to cultivate a habit of posting small, creative posts more regularly. This is my attempt. No laughing or judging. Enjoy and be inspired to create better things. And read his too (it’s better) – chrisschwaar.com. Just do it.
Liquor Cabinet (Musing)
Wondering this morning why God thought it was a good idea to code such potent, powerful things as sex and sexual drive into our human experience. We’re watching a TV show at the moment that includes (surprise) a couple romantic storylines. It crossed my mind this morning how rare, appealing, and unlikely it seems that […]
Continue readingWrestling with God (Musing)
Jacob Wrestles With God 22 That night Jacob got up and took his two wives, his two female servants and his eleven sons and crossed the ford of the Jabbok. 23 After he had sent them across the stream, he sent over all his possessions. 24 So Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him till daybreak. 25 When the man saw that […]
Continue readingBroken Models (Musing)
A couple weeks ago, my model broke. I had been duct-taping said model together for a long while. That proved ultimately to be a futile effort. In the midst of my life feeling a little hair-brained and too full for its britches anyway, the fundamental understanding I had been holding in my hands that tried […]
Continue readingThe Stories We Tell (Musing)
It’s striking me as interesting today that the stories we herald and treasure — the epics, the required readings, the stories we pass down and that have stood the test of time — almost always include a dramatic arc through conflict and resolution. Why do we love the Lord of the Rings quests so much? […]
Continue readingHealthy Hope (Musing)
My relationship with God has been… strained over the last few months. My hope and expectation reached a breaking point, and most of what I feel now towards Him is deep disappointment, mistrust, and hurt. This is not the first time I’ve bumped up against feelings of frustration and (what I feel is a reasonable […]
Continue readingGood and Evil (Musing)
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the natures of good and evil. First thought: I recently listened to Jonathan Haidt, author of The Righteous Mind and what I’m sure are other worthwhile works, talk about “moral pluralism” — his conclusion after studying morality anthropologically. While there doesn’t seem to be only one version of […]
Continue readingRain in the Distance (Musing)
Noticing today how rain in the distance appears so differently than I might have assumed if I thought about it. Rain up close – right above you, dampening or soaking you, tangible and near and audible – is readily discernible: countless drops, coordinated but separate. Rain can toy with you in breaths and waves, different […]
Continue readingThe Scariest of All? (Musing)
I drive past a funeral home on my way home from JT’s. This morning as I caught sight of its sign, the two names conjoined to make the business name made me think of the sorts of individuals that would start or run a funeral home. I hope they’re not prone to fear of the […]
Continue readingPlaying with Generative Image AI (Creating)
Hello everyone, One of my to-do’s today was to experiment with image-generating AI (Artificial Intelligence for those of us who have miraculously avoided that topic so far) to get some ideas for a webpage redesign. It didn’t work extremely well, so I’ll probably still have to use an old-fashioned noggin and pen and paper and […]
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