Aug
17
2022
I met “Margo” at camp. She loved hoops and baggy shorts and had a cutting-edge fashion style. She found her mother dead when she was a very young child. Her father remarried a negligent woman who never cared for...
Aug
16
2022
My grandmother grew up in a severely austere home. Her mother did not believe in affection and ruled her family with a no-nonsense mentality. She was one of seven siblings, all male except for a younger sickly sister. Her...
Aug
15
2022
One of the helpful learning lessons Dad and I received was the conscious decision to move out of the external illusion.
Consider a man named Richard Smith. His first family knew and called him Dick Smith. After fifteen years of...
Aug
12
2022
One February, we lost our cat, Crystal. She never came home. I was devastated. I held to the fantasy she would be found at a pet shelter. I was grieving but not attending to my sorrow. I picked up...
Aug
11
2022
Today is the anniversary of my Dad’s death. Our family is traveling together. Mom and Dad’s house, where he passed away, has been sold. I wanted to get out of town. As I draw near to his day of...
Aug
10
2022
I have moved to Spokane three times in my life. It has the largest urban waterfall of any North American city—such an incredible place to live! My parents lived in many different towns, Fairbanks, Moscow, Anacortes, Tulsa, San Bernadino,...
Aug
09
2022
Dad and Jay love the phrase POSP, which was an acronym for “P—on Self Pity.” My grandmother was very British, and I don’t love the P--- word. My acronym to get out of self-pity is to say I refuse...
Aug
08
2022
One of the best skills Dad gave our family was the family meeting. Before an event, this meeting time was crucial to outline the expectations of the family and each other. Dad knew unfulfilled expectations were one of the...
Aug
05
2022
Dad and I often wondered why people work and live together without knowing each other. This distance creates a supreme sense of loneliness. Proximity without intimacy. Habitation without a home. Dad made loving relationships one of his highest priorities....
Aug
03
2022
One of my favorite lines in scripture says—“Delight yourself in the Lord, and He will give you the desires of your heart.” It’s located in two passages; Dad and I memorized Psalm 20 and Psalm 37. Dad and I...
