February 2012
7 posts
i'm an uncle.
this little baby walked right into my heart the day i found out his mama was carryin’ him around in her belly. but the day he was born, february 23rd, he somehow found a way to squirm his way a little deeper into it. we share a lot of things already… a love for our family, a safe cozy feeling when they are around, a last name, and… a birthday! ever since i found out he was a...
ring around the rosie
ash wednesday services have never been a big deal for me. i didn’t go to them growing up, and didn’t even know what happened at one until last year. but tonight, in one of my favoritist churches in the city - i really got smacked hard with the meaning and value of this tradition. right about the time we started saying the litany of penitence, i started to get a little uncomfy. but once...
a [very] short lesson on loyalty.
promises never did sound better than when they were kept.
loyalty, my friends, is something that will never go out of style.
you are not:
who says it’s not helpful to think of all the things you are not? (a slave, disloyal, bound, judged…) how cliche of me to use any lyrics from mumford and sons, but i’m not cool enough to think they’re not fun to listen to. or to write about some of the great lyrics they have. Love it will not betray you Dismay or enslave you, it will set you free Be more like the man you...
open mouthed
time goes so quickly these days. and it’s so much fun. i’m savoring the days of big, wet, open-mouthed baby kisses and belly laughs over hitting myself in the head with a spatula. or getting videos of my sweet chubs of a niece playing with my valentines present in the bathtub and “blowing” me a kiss (it’s more of a hand to the mouth and eyes full of intention to do...
the sort of life for which we were created
i was recently inspired by my great play-reader of a sister-in-law to check out tennessee williams’s the catastrophe of success. don’t be scared to read it - it’s a short essay you can find online. i would definitely encourage you to do so. some really good things in there. this stuck out to me:
The sort of life that I had had previous to this popular success was one that...