This is a completely random (and incomplete) collection of good things about today. I woke up early enough to get coffee and make it to the morning meeting with minutes to spare. As you can see, Arg was really getting into his new copy of Wuthering Heights during breakfast: There was a pie (among other…
Category: Things That Make Me Happy
Corduroy Argyle
Today I was greeted at work with the news that there was mail waiting for me in a co-worker’s office. Mail is usually addressed to the department, not to me, so that seemed odd. I knew as soon as I saw the return address that this was a good kind of odd. Texas never disappoints…
The Amazing Camping Spork
Some of my friends do things like cut the handles off of their toothbrushes to cut down on pack weight for long backpacking treks. Since they’re the ones trudging for weeks with those toothbrushes in their packs, who am I to think that’s extreme? I haven’t started cutting my toothbrush into pieces yet, and my…
Mountain Moments
Sometimes I forget how wonderful mountains are. I get caught up in whatever’s going on–life, that next bounce of the four-square ball, whatever–and I forget about the beauty that exists outside of those thoughts. This weekend’s retreat included lots of great time with students, good talks/sermons, games galore, funny skits, and opportunities to meet new…
Dog Paws and Sunshine
Imagine that this dog is a human and that it’s in a VW Rabbit with the windows rolled down. It’s still basking in the sun with that exact expression. It’s still in heaven. That was me at lunch today. There aren’t many things that top the feeling of sun on your skin at the beginning…
un’isola
Today is a nostalgic day. What is it that I’m pining for? Being surrounded by a foreign language. I’ll explain. I’ve been going through things and reorganizing lately. It’s a good spring-ish thing to do, and I ran into some old journals in the process. The journals start around 1990 and more or less stop…
Stripes
This moment of stripes in nature is brought to you by a mild obsession I’ve had with stripes since sometime in high school. For a while, that manifested itself in way too many items of striped clothing. That has been cut down to a reasonable percentage of my clothes, but I still sneak stripes into…
Small, but valuable. 