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        I went for a run again today.  This makes two days in a row, but this one I went alone.         My legs ached (and still do) unused to and atrophied from my period of complacence.  The cold air burned my lungs, or more my heart by feeling and place (and if […]

        I went for a run with my son today.  I couldn’t tell you how long it’s been.           I started with a bold statement, “I’m going to go get our teenagers into shape.”         Then I listened to myself, how ridiculous and untrue it was and fast-corrected, “No, I’m […]

        As a father, there is something I love of large family events when all our living generations gather together again: the idea and belief that some of the most special and important people in our lives have not come into our lives—not even created yet.         How cool is that? […]

        Unwinding and ending day, I smoke from bench and patio’s view.  Short sleeves, gift of an almost-summer day in heart of winter.  Not all miracles need be profound.  What matters is we see—and today was one.         Wind chimes blow and gift a song as I rest in my own silence.  Cigar is gone, […]

        That’s another thing about gifts: they’re for who they’re for and that’s the point, even if they mean little or nothing to anyone else.  They’re personal, and it’s the personal that makes the meaning.  You can’t buy that on shelves, find meaning in someone else’s marketing.  It’s from gifted to the gifted—expression of a value […]

        I believe the best gifts are those appreciated more with time.  Sometimes that’s minutes.  Sometimes that’s hours, days, years—a lifetime.  We see better and more truly the thought and intention that went into, and seeing that, new perspectives and appreciation appear.         With our own years, experience—and seeing what others gifted to, and […]

        I look at a painting I am working on, contemplating next move as I wait and let paint dry.  It isn’t the product of a single sitting, single rushed make.  Like most things of depth and intention, there are layers to it all.  Perspective, depth, scales—one layer and pass refined the last.  It is a little […]