From the category archives:
i haven’t blogged about this yet, but i’ve teased it a bit in my facebook status: i’m going to haiti in a couple weeks. my reluctance and reasons-not-to-go are just barely shy of the sum total of factors that mush together into my compulsion to go. some reasons not to go: – i like comfort. [...]
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ok, time to go public with my plans. after a few months of prayerful discernment, loads of phone calls and face-to-face meetings to seek input and refine my thinking, and a good deal of new clarity about what i am not called to (as well as what i am called to), i’ve landed on a [...]
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i’m going to post in the next few days (or week) what i’m planning to do for 2010. but i thought i’d start by sharing the process i went through to figure it out. let’s back up to december of 2008. i’ve blogged about this before, but in mid-december, a year ago, i found out [...]
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wow — i haven’t blogged in 11 days. and, while i’ve thought of it a few times, and would have posted had i had internet access, i was wonderfully at peace about letting this baby just sit here. and i had pretty good reason for not posting: – my family flew to detroit to be [...]
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- flying to detroit today, for our annual christmas trek. my family and jeannie’s are all in detroit. in my 46 years of life, i’ve never spent a christmas day anywhere but detroit. we mostly split our time between jeannie’s family and mine. but this year jeannie and i are getting away to a little [...]
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the other day i was given a bag full of encouragement notes, written by attendees at the cincinatti and atlanta national youth workers conventions. it’s a beautiful stack of back-pats and heart-hugs, really. i’m about 1/3 the way through reading them so far; but one of them really caught my attention, and made me laugh [...]
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my six days of silence in the desert was such a significant experience and turning point for me in my post-lay-off process that i haven’t been able to bring myself to blog about it until now. somehow, it felt like i would be commodifying it had i jumped right into a blog post within days. [...]
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ok — so, with all my cancelled travel at the end of this calendar year (nywc and other trips), i’m going to end up being just barely shy of making my frequent flier status on united airlines this year. and, man, that frequent flier status sure has its perks, which i’d love to have for [...]
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The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak theoretically a young adult fiction, but i can’t see why it’s not an amazing book for adults also. set in nazi germany, it’s the story of an orphan girl, into a family who hides a jew in their basement. part coming-of-age story, part adoption story, part holocaust history. oh, [...]
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now that the youthworks deal is public, i think i can tell the story and add my thoughts, as so many have been asking me to do. let me start with a few preliminary thoughts: – first, i’m really sorry i’ve had to be so silent this past month. the reasons for this are many, [...]
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