Category Archives: Just Thinking

The weather is clear and cold, cold enough to dissuade me from my planned early-morning walk. I won’t allow it to keep me away from my task all day, though. Later, after church, I’ll find a suitable trail and commune … Continue reading →

This morning, as I sit before my computer, the images do not come. Words elude me. The creativity I had hoped would spur me to spill ideas and intriguing language through my fingers and onto the screen remains hidden under … Continue reading →

For the past four mornings, I have awakened before sunrise (as I always do) and waited until the sky was sufficiently lit by the pre-dawn sun to enable me to go for a walk without stumbling off a precipice in … Continue reading →

Doing a “good deed” does not always leave one feeling warm and fuzzy. Several years ago, my wife and I drove to Llano, Texas, where we stopped at Cooper’s to have some Central Texas BBQ.  I don’t recall exactly when … Continue reading →

This is the very last post I will make on my blog for the year 2015. The year just ending was not bad, not bad at all, but certain aspects of this fragment of time could have been better. I … Continue reading →

  My coffee this morning leaves something to be desired. That something is the customary mug from which I drink. I broke that mug this morning, along with an elderly soup bowl and a small porcelain bowl; the three of them … Continue reading →

If I didn’t need sleep, I could get so much more done. Late at night, I’d have the house to myself. I could let my mind wander down paths it rarely takes during my waking hours. Absent the need for … Continue reading →

Yesterday’s clear skies and unseasonably warm temperatures are giving way to cloud-laden skies likely to deliver sheets of rain and unseasonably warm temperatures. If I could exercise some degree of control over the weather, I would do it. Because, you … Continue reading →

I seem to have gotten out of the habit of keeping a record of my days. Though I’ve never been obsessive about it, keeping track of what and where I ate, places we visited, and interesting things we encountered was … Continue reading →

Everyone has a story to tell, a touching tale capable of melting hearts and mending fences. But, as someone said to me recently, “Your story means nothing if you don’t tell it.” She wasn’t referring to me, nor my story, but to people … Continue reading →

Once again, I have removed myself from Facebook. It won’t last, but I desire a respite from the fray. Once I am “in” the Facebook activity stream, I am hooked on it and can’t seem to get away from it. It’s … Continue reading →

I posted a number of photos on Facebook today, photos of masks I had made recently. They were the final, glaze-fired pieces. I suggested, in my post, that I had imperfectly glazed them. And I had. In reflecting on my … Continue reading →

Last night, my wife and her sister and I went to Garvan Woodland Gardens to view the spectacular Christmas lights display. It was extraordinary. My photo skills, and smart-phone camera, aren’t quite up to the task, but these photos offer … Continue reading →

I have a Twitter account, but I rarely use it. My most recent involvement was to post a photo in May of 2014. Before that, I rarely tweeted anything after early 2010. For some reason, though, I went to my Twitter … Continue reading →

Love expresses itself in unexpected ways. Even if you are unaware of its presence, it is right there, next to you, being rude and unapologetic. Or maybe that’s not love at all. Maybe it’s a pretender. How can you possibly … Continue reading →

Time turns mountains into valleys and granite into sand. But time, alone, cannot perform such feats. The inexorable forces of nature relentlessly work those million-year miracles. When I look at the world around me and consider the changes that have taken … Continue reading →

Emotions are dangerous beasts that burn bridges and set fire to occupied buildings. They wreck dreams and ships and desires. They rip hopes into shreds that cannot be rewoven into whole cloth, leaving us naked and cold in the darkest times in the most … Continue reading →

Six of my oldest sister’s birthdays have passed without her here to celebrate them.  Today is number six without her. The first one without her was about eight months after her death. I guess that was the hardest, but each November … Continue reading →

Sometimes it’s important to capture the moment because the moment represents one’s life the way it ought to be; not just on occasion, but always. Therefore, I’m capturing the moment. I made dinner tonight, which included grilling some vegetables (squash, onions, … Continue reading →