“Family archeology…” “I am a family archeologist,” says my wife… Layer by layer she digs into our family’s past… Removing the coverings from the seats of the old kitchen chairs…
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Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth… Matthew 6:19 How did he want to be remembered? He knew exactly. Not when he died… He never thought about dying. But ten years from now… Fifteen years from now… He knew how he wanted to be remembered then. “Perception,” he said, […]
“Living wood” the display says…. Living? A strange description for something planed and sanded and finished into a table. The uneven edge, says the poster… Reveals the true nature of the wood, and makes it living wood. The top of the table is sanded smooth and varnished… So is the bottom of […]
“A full wastebasket’s no use to anybody!” He looks at what I’m doing and chuckles. “No use to anybody, ” he says as he walks away… I’m getting rid of paper… Paper generated by the computer that is supposed to lead us into a paperless world. Paper that fills filing cabinets… Paper rising in […]
“…and you will find rest for your souls…” Mathew 11:29 I should have known the mall was in trouble… Its walls enclose three-quarters-of-a-million square feet of space… But only four tenants… Three stores and one Movie Theater. There is never anyone in the mall… At least not anyone spending money. All of […]
When I was a boy, my grandfather smoked White Owl cigars… They came in boxes made of thick cardboard decorated with the White Owl logo… As soon as he brought the cigars home, he’d take them out of the box and put them one-at-a-time in a glass humidor. When the cigars were […]