Browsing Category: Journal Pages

        I sit in the top row of bleachers watching our town’s third grade football team.  Owen’s team isn’t playing today, but he wanted to go to the field.  I brought a book (e-book) and read as, rather than watch the game, he plays with his friends that are there.           This is […]

GENEROSITY                “Do you want the rest of my cereal?” my youngest son asks.                “I do!” I answer.                Every meal, he always leaves a bite.  Every  meal, I gladly finish his plate.                We both know that it’s a game, that if he leaves a bite and I eat it, he is freed […]

               6:30, I wake my youngest son.  He is still in bed, eyes closed, and under sheets; but his mind is alert and moving.                “I’m writing a poem,” he tells me from his bed.                “That’s awesome!” I respond.                “I was writing it in my dream,” his eyes still closed.                “I’ll leave […]

               It played again today as offering hymn.  I recognized in the opening notes, lived again association and memory.                 My daughter sat beside, my arm around her shoulder, as we listen and I saw her searching for the memory—association to song and sound eluding whole of understanding.                “How do I know this song?” […]