My daughter is at the airport as we speak, heading off to Colorado for a month of summer school to study drawing. It’s an exciting time but there has been some trepidation, as well, mostly about the chaos of the airport and the margin for error in getting from here to there. I turned toContinue reading “Favourable Wind”
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Many rooms, many seasons
Just read a wonderful piece by Mike Cope about how we experience and express our faith in very different ways: enjoy! Do you ever feel out of place with fellow believers—perhaps like no one “gets” you? It may simply be that you are a “winter believer” while they are “summer believers ” (or vice versa).Continue reading “Many rooms, many seasons”
Grace in the Parenting Storm
It was hard to ignore all the media swirling around the Time magazine cover on “attachment parenting” last week. The shot of the mother nursing a boy who appeared old enough to play t-ball was designed to stop us in our tracks—it did, good job with that—still, I found myself curiously unstirred about the issueContinue reading “Grace in the Parenting Storm”
In Praise of Old Women with Cellulite
I hear them before I see them, their voices rising up in sing-song and echoing off the greenhouse dome that covers the pool at our local YMCA. I can’t tell what they’re singing, only that they sound happy and spry—more like a schoolgirl choir than a pool full of women in their final decades. CrossingContinue reading “In Praise of Old Women with Cellulite”
Aren’t you tired?
This painting (The Passion) by Patty Wickman was the very first image of the very first Renaissance Service (TM) I ever did. Imagine entering a candlelit sanctuary at night with this projected up big on a photographer’s seamless on the altar…as if to say “Come unto me, all who are heavy laden, and I willContinue reading “Aren’t you tired?”
Heather Choate Davis 