We ate at the Olive Garden tonight, the one that used to be a specter, the one that would show up on search engines but that we could never find. Until they finally built it… and people came. Of course it took us nearly six years after they arrived to make our way to the … Continue reading @the Olive Garden
Life is a series of actions and reactions, the interactions between us and others, between us and our surroundings, and between us and our own minds. We wrestle with decisions every day, fighting against thoughts that could tend to derail us. We have expectations that we strive to achieve, provided we actually believe they are … Continue reading This Is Acting
“And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.” ~Genesis 2:2 For the longest time I thought this was what we were supposed to do, the idea that with God as a model we were to … Continue reading Growing Up Seventh-Day Adventist: Even God Rested
“…and that R.E.M. song was playing in my mind. Three and a half minutes. Felt like a lifetime.” ~Better Than Ezra I always wondered what “that R.E.M. song” was, which one from their vast catalog made such an impression on a young Kevin Griffin (lead singer of Better Than Ezra) that he immortalized it in … Continue reading That R.E.M. Song
Dear Journal, When I was 10 I got my first journal, and I named it Fox because it had a painting of a fox on the cover. It was rather generic, but I was excited about it anyway. It was my excuse to go into my room and put my thoughts down on lined paper … Continue reading Dear Journal: Fox Lingo
These walls are so thin I can hear the ocean from here, its tide crashing against the shore, storing up energy for the return trip out to sea. I sit here in a padded metal chair, but the padding is just for show, all cracked but otherwise nondescript. It is the only feature in a … Continue reading Signal to Noise
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