Daily Verse 11.19.20—No More Cruise Control
I feel unusually strong about not using the cruise control function while driving a car, and it’s a big bone of contention in our family. I don’t get it and no one gets me. I get the logic and the rationale behind it—how it is more fuel-efficient and ensures you’re …
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Daily Verse 11.18.20—Breaking The Seal
You know what my idea of hell is? Walking into a room where there is so much to be said but no one is saying it—where people are making small talk with saccharine smiles, but you can just sense the river of shit coursing through the room. Entering a room …
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Daily Verse 11.17.20—Always Do Your Best Is Bullshit
I caught myself in a whopper of a lie to my kids not too long ago, and it resulted in me taking a good dose of my own medicine. In our house, we talk a lot about not “mailing it in” when it comes to showing up to our responsibilities …
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Daily Verse 11.16.20—Tired Technology
I’ve decided I’m going to stop trying to understand what’s going on with technology, and let it just sort itself out. Hacking, malware, upgrades, bugs, fixes, hardware, software, modems, chargers, cables, battery power, memory problems, glitches, dropped signals….it’s just all so exhausting. And yet there is the pervasive sense we …
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Daily Verse 11.15.20—Things I Didn’t Know
It’s true what they say, I think, about the longer you live, the more you realize you don’t know. I wouldn’t have believed that in my 20s. But then again, I thought I knew everything back then. There is a certain humility that comes with age that I have found …
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Daily Verse 11.14.20—Nature’s Clock
I recently spent some time on a coastal island in Maine. It was off-season, mid-week, and nothing fancy. I got the impression I was the only one who didn’t live full-time on the island, and I felt more like a quiet observer than a tourist as a result. This was …
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Daily Verse 11.13.20—The Golden Buddha
There is this story I always reach for when I feel like I’m not enough. Apparently years ago, a team of art historians were brought in to restore this massive Buddha statue. While they were trying to transport it to an indoor location, it cracked. Unable to determine the extent …
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Daily Verse 11.12.20—Quiet Magic
It’s a fair statement, I think, that I’m a relatively loud person. No one I know would dispute that fact. But when I heard the phrase “quiet magic” used today, something in my soul piqued, like finding the first of a series of breadcrumbs that led down a wooded trail. …
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Daily Verse 11.11.20 — Time to Pray
For years I have wanted to find a way to pray on a daily basis. I wanted it to be simple. I wanted it to be me. I wanted it to be something I would reach for like my toothbrush, to scrub off the plaque on my soul and let …
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Daily Verse 11.10.20—Alone, But Not Lonely
I have this practice of taking myself away two or three times a year. My intention is always the same: to remove all the distractions of my familiar space, enough so I can hear the quiet, deep, and true voice that lives inside me. Why? Because ironically, it’s only when …
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