A Mindful Life

When you encounter another person, when you have dealings with anyone at all, it is as if a question is being put to you. So you must think, “What is the Lord asking of me in this moment, in this situation? If you confront insult or antagonism, your first impulse will be to respond in [...]

At least, that’s what it looks like to me! I took this on our little jaunt a few weeks ago.

I was sitting on the wrong side of the train to look at scenery — outside my window there was nothing but a wall of rock — but a pleasant, bespectacled lady sitting across the aisle saw me straining to see things, and invited me to take the empty seat opposite her. She was Swiss [...]

I found out about Blogpulse from Euan’s blog. I’ve been trying to wean my ego from paying attention to the number of visitors here or finding who links to me. This program, of course, taps into that vein, but it promises to be an interesting way to track topical trends in blogs. I found myself [...]

Taken on the Caltrain ride home from San Francisco.

Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed. –Herman Melville

There is a wound in the flesh of human life that scars when it heals and often enough seems never to heal at all. –Marilynne Robinson, Gilead

I spent the day in San Francisco with a friend I hadn’t seen in nine years. This caught my eye on the subway.

I rounded the corner from the hallway and found Sophie lounging on my laptop. Very bad idea. The fan was whirring madly. However, both cats adore sunspots and will sprawl wherever they find one. My laptop has the ability to take a screenshot — a picture of the computer screen. She managed to take two [...]

It has seemed to me sometimes as though the Lord breathes on this poor gray ember of Creation and it turns to radiance — for a moment or a year or the span of a life. And then it sinks back into itself again, and to look at it no one would know it had [...]