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My oldest, Justus (also known as The Emperor), turned 5 on Earth Day.
While five years is a relatively short time-span, it's nothing to sneeze at when you're the mom of said creature. They grow old in the blink of an eye, you know. (Or if for some reason you don't know, everyone who has ever had a kid, will tell you.)
Due to the lightning fast growth of children, I am sticking to my previously declared blogging-hiatus of sorts...posting just once a month (or so) until Justus starts ...
Love Will Be What You Let It Be
Fuzzy blond-haired boys roll into my kitchen every day around 7:00 and proceed to order food as if they were regulars at a local breakfast dive.
More often than not, they opt for eggs, not because of taste or nutrition, but because little boys rarely get the chance to break small fragile objects or unleash gooey yellow globs...legally.
I know posting about mundane kitchen tasks like cracking eggs is choosing to memorialize a little bit of daily nothing. It doesn't solve social ...
Until we meet again…
I've sat down several times to plot the course of this blog. To figure out how to move from a loose collection of posts on friendship toward some of the more important ideas and audacious claims stirring inside me.
There is far more I'd like to explore concerning how human beings relate to each other, both in the faith and in our western culture. And I'd like, also, to think more about what these relationships say about our understanding of God.
Even though I've been dabbling in ...
Making Friends in Adulthood: What’s the Trick?
In high school, you sat for hours in the same classrooms or ran the gym for hours on the same sports teams. In college, you lived in the same buildings--"dorms"--where for four years, you didn't need to do anything but walk out the door to find yourself surrounded with friends and acquaintances.
But many people are taken by surprise how the nature of friendship can change as they age. Alex Williams recently took on this phenomena in his New York Times piece, "Why Is It Hard to Make Friends After 30?"
But We Stand In Life at Midnight, On the Threshold of a New Dawn
"If we are arrested every day, if we are exploited every day, if we are trampled over every day, don't ever let anyone pull you so low as to hate them. We must use the weapon of love. We must have the compassion and understanding for those who hate us. We must realize so many people are taught to hate us that they are not totally responsible for their hate. But we stand in life at midnight, we are always on the threshold of a new dawn."
--Martin Luther King, Jr. 24th February, 1956