On the road

7/9/2025 There is this fascination with with travel. Seeing new scenery for the first time, or seeing it again. Realizing that the world is big. Realizing what we like about somewhere else and realizing what we love about home. The everyday is important. The never-ending work just to maintain, not to mention to move forward, can easily make the grass on the other side of the fence look greener than it is. Seeing progress from…
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Attention

7/4/2025 Last night was the youth camp wrap up. It ended with fireworks. They were spectacular. And for just a few minutes our collective attention was focused upward. Like so many others, I was caught up in the marvelous display. It occurred to me that I was smiling and yet everything about me was completely relaxed. I glanced around very briefly and saw the same in the faces of those around me. For just a…
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The morning sun

7/2/2025 It is morning of the third day at Camp Zephyr in Sandia. There are about 700 youth from a bunch of churches. Not many of them are up yet. The camp is mostly quiet. I found a table overlooking Lake Corpus Christi that wasn’t too wet. Was just sitting here and realized that I was facing about east and the sun was about to come up. I love the sun on my face in…
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