Five Minute Friday: Opportunity
I live in Central Oregon. That means it doesn’t really rain here. It’s the High Desert and we get a lot of sun, wind, snow, heat, and everything else you get in the desert, including jack rabbits and...
View ArticleFive Minute Friday: Dive
When she comes up she’s lightning fast. One blink and you’ve missed her. If you’re lucky you might glimpse her back, or just the tip of her tail. If you’re lucky. In an instant she’s down again,...
View ArticleFive Minute Friday: Again
GO I can’t count the nights I walked into the house after work and ate dinner alone. I can’t count the days I woke up in my apartment and ate breakfast in silence. I can’t count the moments of...
View ArticleFive Minute Friday: Afraid
GO The day was that kind of spring day where the sun is hot but the wind still blows. Any sort of exertion means you’ll get sweaty, but if you stop you’ll get cold. And here I was walking down the...
View ArticleFive Minute Friday: Bare
GO Bare, dry, windswept land stretches before me, as far as the eye can see. Left to my own devices I would strain to construct a shelter, a hovel of ghost-town proportions. With winds, always...
View ArticleFive Minute Friday: Beloved
GO You are a dork. You never look at the camera when I want to take your picture. You are always looking off at something far more interesting than me. When I want to be with you you stay for awhile,...
View ArticleFive Minute Friday: What Mama Did
GO When you are 6 foot 2 and look like a movie star, people listen. When you can back up what you are saying with results, people follow. When you love like Jesus, regardless of color, caste or creed,...
View ArticleFive Minute Friday: Ordinary
GO Life is a series of extremes. If you start to write some of them down you realized pretty quickly that you, yes, even you, are far from ordinary. Here are some of mine: I’ve driven a car that I...
View ArticleFive Minute Friday: HOME
GO Home is the end of the week when he finally walks in the door from hours on the road and we’ve gotten through all the transitions, that some weeks take longer than others, and the kids are asleep...
View ArticleFive Minute Friday: REST
GO 2 steps. Rest. 5 steps. Rest. Only 100 yards to go. A few more steps. A few more rests. My head is spinning. My stomach is forming a revolution. My senses are swaying to an unheard waltz. Just get...
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