Good Fruit. Unexpected Blessings.

Sunlight’s strewed across the maple syrup brown concrete floor. My barefoot takes cool from the floor. Across the lobby’s expanse, day’s end sun carves shadows four, five times taller than the metal door frames. One door clatters open, startles me. Older woman, maybe, almost elfin and with two cloth satchels that pull her arms down […]

Posted on June 20, 2017 at 11:49 am by Tim · Permalink · Comments Closed
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Commitment 2017

For years I haven’t made New Year’s Resolutions. Never could live up to them. Usually had forgotten the resolution by February. But I’m all for setting measurable, accountable commitments. Right now I’m working on my Commitments 2017. Just last week I received an e-mail invitation to Run the Year 2017. It invites me to run/walk […]

Posted on December 29, 2016 at 6:00 pm by Tim · Permalink · Comments Closed
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Morning Prayer 33/100. Steady pace

Moving at a steady pace is most often your best bet. I went out to run earlier than usual one morning last week. All along the way, a 10-yard stretch of grass separates sidewalk from boulevard. I rounded a curve and came upon a doe and two fawn, perhaps 3 weeks old, grazing on that […]

Posted on September 8, 2015 at 6:51 am by Tim · Permalink · Comments Closed
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Morning Prayer 30/100. Here and now.

Here and now — this place at this instant — is reality. Nothing else is. Here and now can be very hard to stay in. What happened 5 minutes ago was reality then. The turkey and cheese sandwich I made then is still reality, sitting here on the desk beside my laptop. However, the act of […]

Posted on August 27, 2015 at 3:21 pm by Tim · Permalink · Comments Closed
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