Tonight, Tonight

Tonight, my little girl, I take you to your bedroom, and I sit with you on my shoulder in the rocker.

And I rock, and I think.

I think as you lay on my shoulder, your cheek against my neck. I think of the days and years stretched out before you.

I think of you playing with your toys, finding a world of adventure in the simple. The hours you can spend playing with a pile of

Posted at 12am on 02/29/08 | 2 comments | Filed Under: Personal & Family read on

The Distance

Across one of my various electronic venues came the question “What are you missing right now”? To which my answer was “Being alone”.
I think we often need to be alone. Our culture has become so “noisy”, so pressing, so demanding of our attention that I fear we are losing ourselves. We have come adrift from our moorings. of who we are, that we are in danger of becoming nothing save an

Posted at 4pm on 06/12/07 | 1 comment | Filed Under: Thoughts & Observations read on

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