Mar
20
Your Hands
March 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment
If your hands were to tell of your life ‘til this day
What type of life would your hands portray?
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Would they be idle with no work to do,
Un-calloused and smooth with lotions to soothe?
Or would they be tattered and soiled with use,
Revealing hard labor and years of abuse?
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Do they gently and softly wipe away tears,
And cradle [...]
Mar
10
Lessons From The Curio Cabinet
March 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment
As I step into voluntary chaos this day, I find a slow motion moment that will stay with me for years. This morning a friend came over to help me pack up some bookshelves and a curio cabinet in preparation for my floor being torn up tomorrow (yes, just one day before my surgery). [...]
Mar
1
The Gift
March 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment
This has been a week of creating new friends and renewing old. The conversations have been simple, enjoyable, profound, and sometimes quite deep. Some of these individuals have journeyed where I am about to go and others have mountains to climb far different and greater then my own.
As I contemplate what to write, [...]