Tuesday, October 25 The Broken Way released today. The family returned to Michigan, and we are scattered again. The effort to break the Curse of the Billy Goat began, and I shattered a glass on the tile.
When You’re Crushed and Broken – #TheBrokenWay
“The miracle happens in the breaking.” ~ Ann Voskamp in The Broken Way: a daring path into the abundant life It’s just the two of us for dinner. I scrounge up some chicken, left over from the chicken-with-cherry-sauce recipe from A Taste of Laity Lodge. Only for her, I serve it plain with bottled […]
31 Days of Moving Reflections – Day 24 #SouthFloridaBound
Monday, October 24 Playing with Haiku Waves flaunt their muscles Sea suds quiver like jello God washes my feet. *** First gather the eggs Scramble them in a glass bowl See what hatches. *** Do not be afraid Deep in the dung and the dark The hour to praise. *** Footprints in the sand […]
31 Days of Moving Reflections – Day 23 #SouthFloridaBound
Sunday, October 23 We have to say goodbye again. Nobody wants to talk about it. I bake giant blueberry muffins and take short orders– scrambled eggs for one, oatmeal for another. How do I always end up in the kitchen? We sun. We swim. We play. We laugh. We grill. We eat. We pack. […]
31 Days of Moving Reflections – Day 22 #SouthFloridaBound
Saturday, October 22 Ten of us wake up in our son’s perfect-for-four apartment, D and I on an air mattress crammed in the playroom. (Later tonight D will lose his balance on too little air when he rises to visit the restroom, tumble back into bed, then to the floor and set a […]
31 Days of Moving Reflections – Day 21 #SouthFloridaBound
Friday, October 21 Today we’re facing down danger in Florida– not alligators nor sharks nor fireants nor mosquitoes nor Nile crocodiles nor Burmese pythons. Today we’re going to get our kicks not on Route 66 but on what many deem to be the most deadly or at least second deadly stretch of highway in the country, Interstate 95 heading […]
31 Days of Moving Reflections – Day 20 #SouthFloridaBound
Thursday, October 20 Nearly half a century ago we vowed to adopt the stance that we would not add to the world’s problems, that zero meant more, that we’d be free to make the world a better place. But then our world turned upside down when we were moved to Florida. We filed to sever […]
31 Days of Moving Reflections – Day 19 #SouthFloridaBound
Wednesday, October 19 Suds quiver like jello on the edge. A grain of sanderlings skitters along the water, and one seems to surf a wave. A pair of gulls gaze out at who knows what. An older couple about my age, with rolls exposed, strolls past, she in a two-piece and he in a Speedo, both dark-tanned and […]
31 Days of Moving Reflections – Day 18 #SouthFloridaBound
Tuesday, October 18 Walking on the beach here is not like walking on the beach there. There our footsteps were hemmed by water and dune grass. Here our footsteps are hemmed by water and high-rises. I’m having to look at the trees and not the forest, to find beauty in the middle, to let beauty carry […]
31 Days of Moving Reflections – Day 17 #SouthFloridaBound
Monday, October 17 I’m re-reading yesterday’s church bulletin. Well, it’s not really a bulletin. A bulletin outlines an order of service, tells one what to expect. We didn’t know what to expect when we decided to drive into downtown Fort Lauderdale to visit. The building itself takes up what must be half a block. […]
