Tag: journey
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Not My Words
Poetry used to fall out of me A long time I thought it was like a rushing river Or like falling pedals on a cherry tree Words would spill out and I thought Boy Aren’t I good to have the word to say What others won’t When my life began to reflect my words I…
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Helicopter
A friend from church approached me Told me that watching me grow in my journey with Christ reminded him of the time I mentioned to him I went on a helicopter ride through the Alaskan glaciers He told me I got in the helicopter, as scary as it seemed, with Jesus at the wheel He…
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I got fired
from that stupid job I was talking about earlier. With all the ambitions and seeling myself short and trying to dream big. That job. you know what’s the worst part? I was really, really good at it. I got caught looking at my phone because my wife was dropping me off dinner, and I know,…
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Birthday orchid
my birthday was yesterday when I opened my Google pictures the first thing I saw was my best friend who passed away last march. First I cried for a long while. Then I decided to take it as a message, maybe he was just telling me happy birthday. The first one of the day, too.…
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skeletons always come out of the closet
whether we want them to, or not. What is it they say? What’s done in the dark will always find a way to shine? it’s true. Intentions don’t matter. Actions and words do. So when your actions don’t match up with your words, how easily can you look in the mirror and call yourself a…
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Unspoken
It’s easy to fall back into my “I don’t have anything important” to say cycles whenever I have writer’s block. And when I start with that there’s no stopping the avalanche of self-pitying immediately followed by the self-loathing. And so it goes, for weeks or months or years, where suddenly I have nothing to say.…
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Going Home
Hello world! So, remember when I mentioned that this will be a learning process for all of us because I have no idea how to use The Internet? Well, thanks to the wonderful feedback from my friends–which I basically send links to every time I post something new because I love, nay, require, validation–I will…
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Washington (Seattle)
by the way, that Inside Passage place was crazy expensive. It was super cool and everything but the drinks were kind of trash (mostly ice or SUPER syrup-y). The waiting place before we entered was way cooler (see collage pics). I stole a menu, though, hehehehe so maybe I’ll show it
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Washington pt. 3
today and yesterday was spent touring the big Seattle city! My lady’s dad had an extra ticket to see the space needle, so she and I went off to do that and had lunch at the Casco Antiguo and honestly it was super delicious. but let me talk about this really cool moment that happened:…
A Life Worth Living 