Counting on Earth
Counting to 10 using the Earth 1 earth – only 1 2 poles – only 2 (north & south) // 2 tropics – Cancer & Capricorn 3 climate zones – only 3 (Polar. Temperate. Tropical) 4 hemispheres and 4 winds – only 4 5 oceans – only 5. (Arctic, Southern, Pacific, Atlantic, Indian) 6 atmospheric…
When I retire
Now this is a subject I have not considered. And yet 2 friends are retiring this month and 2 others are going part time in anticipation of retirement soon. Is retirement a biblical concept? I don’t think so, but I don’t think that makes it wrong unless when you retire you actually retreat from the…
Push reset and celebrate irrelevancy
My Current Rant: When I hear leaders who are barely out of college and with very limited experience, who are in a training position, comment that people in their mid to late twenties are too old to relate to students I feel even more marginalized than I am and how arrogant you are. When I…
For Want of a Nail
There is a nursery rhyme that has a great message about the importance of details and ripple effects. For want of a nail the shoe was lost. For want of a shoe the horse was lost. For want of a horse the rider was lost. For want of a rider the battle was lost. For…
Floods and Puddles
My mind flooded with thoughts of a woman I never met. Today would have been Jim’s moms 91st birthday. How do I know that?! Why can’t I let some of those little dates go? Her only brother will be buried next week and I wonder if I should go and take some sand from Barbados.…
Silence
The decade syndrome. Jim used to joke that he did everything by decades: 10.5 years on staff in Downey. 10 years in Scottsdale. 10 in Illinois at Trinity. Then when we moved back to CA and he got sick and died after 4.5 years so I thought that the syndrome only applied to him! Yet…
Ground Hog Day! Candlemas Day!
The prestigious prognosticator, Punxatawny Phil, saw his shadow today, which means we have 6 more weeks of Winter! Even though I am certain that the weather and the seasons (especially in the calendarically challenged state of California) have nothing to do with a rodent and his shadow, I am so glad that this winter has…
Lessons from the Holy Land
Tel Arad When Moses led the children of Israel from Egypt to Canaan, the King of Arad picked a fight with the Hebrews and lost (Numbers 21:1-3). This triumph also represented God’s grace to the Hebrews in light of an earlier defeat they suffered there as a result of their lack of faith (Numbers 14:45).…
My lessons of Grief So Far
6 years ago I began a new journey as a widow through the valley of the shadow of death. I have learned a great deal about grief and death since then and I know I have a long way to go in that journey, but here are some of my thoughts so far. Death is…
Amazing Finish!
Check out this link to an amazing win for the Eagles against Master’s College in overtime!! It was a very happy game since I spent it with the Tutens! https://youtu.be/YtKXHf_x1es