I have been trying to write a blog entry for awhile now, but it has been really hard. These are some crazy times we live in. Not just crazy, actually. They are downright unbelievable. I sometimes do something else, watch a TV series or whatever, and get caught up in it, and then I come back to... Continue Reading →
How could God allow this to happen?
I have lived in this world for a fair number of years now ... enough that I don't really want to say how many! I am also pretty intelligent, and I am a thinker. I like to delve into things, plumb them to their depths. Still, it never ceases to amaze me how much I... Continue Reading →
Grief
Today during my commute time I was listening to an audiobook. I'm not going to tell you which one because I don't want to give away any plot lines or anything, but as I was listening today a young man died. He was put to death for a murder he didn't commit. His family was... Continue Reading →
Sorrow and loss
This morning I was looking through some of my old writings, and I came across a poem I wrote a few years ago. I love poetry but don't write it often. Not suprisingly, this poem encompasses a couple of themes that seem to have made themselves the center of my heart's work over the years,... Continue Reading →
Music heals
I know the people who read my blog are interested in the subject of loss and grief. I know that people get inspiration from the fact that I have suffered some of the worst of these, and I am still alive. I get that inspiration from others as well, and so I thought I'd like... Continue Reading →
Endings and Beginnings
From the time when I was very young, I have had a sense of life as being a journey. There is a road we are on, and yes, I believe there is a destination we have to reach -- or maybe more like a series of destinations. Our destiny. It may be big or it... Continue Reading →
Minute by Minute
Today I was working on an application for a client, and I had to enter the date he had first entered the United States. It was November 20, 1988 -- the day after Michaela was kidnapped. I had to stop for a moment there, as I remembered that day and what it was like for... Continue Reading →