Browsing Category: Journal Pages

               “Dad, do you want to see how much I wrote?” my youngest son asks as I tuck him into bed saying “goodnight” and “I love you.”                “I do!” I answer excited at his expressed own.                “It’s down there,” he tells pointing to a desk that hangs from the foot of his bunk […]

               I drove the road where “By River’s Bend” wrote into my mind—O Highway headed north in bends through the Big River Bottoms, old timber stands that open to wide, flat fields that are flooded for ducks in the fall, broad plane of timber and flood before rising back into upland hills beyond.                There […]

               What is love?                 You know it when you feel it.  More important, you know it when you don’t.                 Love and romance, they are not the same.  Romance is the high, a hope-elation.                Love is something more.                Love is the selflessness, acts of service—great and small—we give because we care about […]

               I stop.  I breathe.  It is most anxious moment of my day—getting everyone out the door.                I’ve woke the kids.  Moved and prepped with little nudges to set day-momentum, there comes a moment when time is up and nudges cease.                A bomb goes off, like an EMP that kills and ends all […]

               Today, my daughter plays her last game for her middle school volleyball team.  I will be missing.  Dividing and conquering, I will be getting our son to his football game.  Still, my daughter is on my mind.                I thought of her yesterday, too, in full day of drilling wheat.  I remembered her as […]