High as a Kite, Low as a Worm
152 November 8, 2023 There’s just over two weeks before my two-book launch. These are my fifth and sixth books on Amazon, but the first time I’ve had the nerve and strength to do some marketing. It’s truly a ‘Coming-out party’ for me. A really big deal. For the first time, I’m handing out invites […]
Everyone’s not like me. Yeah! Darn!
153 Nov. 15, 2023 As I’m beginning to share my last two books with people, something that I’ve rarely done with my first books, I’m noticing that it’s usually impossible to predict people’s reaction, unless I’ve talked with them before concerning similar topics. It’s natural that I would hope and even expect people who are […]
J.D. and Others Please Get Your Lives Together
I write this in reaction to my double book launch of yesterday, and the many who weren’t there to celebrate with us. J.D., I hope you don’t mind me using you as a way to focus on a reality that most of our culture share: the segmentation of our lives. We are taught to assume […]
A Miracle on Ford Street
160 Dec. 12 2023 I’ve got to finish this and get it out. Before I change my mind. Again. I claim to be honest and sharing, yet I find it so easy to hide my deepest experiences and emotions. “I’m not a hypocrite,” I tell myself, “I’m just being careful. They probably wouldn’t understand.” But […]
163 Dec. 16 2023 A Message To Churches from the Street
On most Friday mornings from 11:30 to 12:30, you can find me at the corner of Wellington and Princess Streets here in Kingston, demonstrating with other members of the local chapter of ‘350’, one of the oldest international organizations, acting against Climate Change. In that hour I usually have about a dozen people stop to […]
164 Dec. 17 9:51 What A Morning!
Just awoke, trying to remember old words. Realized they didn’t matter. They were gone. New ones already there, bubbling up, needing to get out. Get out of bed! Don’t waste this ‘what-ever-it-is’. It feels too fun to miss. Who knows? Anything? I’m laughing. What’s happening? No pot involved. What is this sudden urge? Unexpected. New. […]
164 Dec. 17 9:51 What A Morning!
Just awoke, trying to remember old words. Realized they didn’t matter. They were gone. New ones already there, bubbling up, needing to get out. Get out of bed! Don’t waste this ‘what-ever-it-is’. It feels too fun to miss. Who knows? Anything? I’m laughing. What’s happening? No pot involved. What is this sudden urge? Unexpected. New. […]
159 Dec. 4 2023 The God of Bread or the God of the Sword – Which?
159 Dec. 4 The God of Bread or the God of the Sword – Which?We’re a complicated and inconsistent bunch. We want to be coddled and taken care of, yet we yearnfor freedom and independence. We seek to control others even though we take offence when others do thesame. Instinctively, we try to make God, […]
The Unspoken Cause of Auschwitz (a three minute condensation of my book)
Why have Christians been killing Jews for nearly 1800 years? Theanswer is in many of our homes, in a book that may be dusty and rarelyopened, or well thumbed. Churchgoers may hear it weekly. The causeclearly lies in the gospels of the New Testament. This knowledge and opinion is nothing new. Long ago in myseminary […]
165 Dec. 17 Noonish Thoughts on this Monday (edited and sent the next day)
This will probably be the second part of a 2-4-1, connected with what happened this morning. I wrote that earlier part pretty well as it happened, just correcting it a bit for clarification, for me as well as for others. I needed a while to mull it over. My first words are most important. I […]
