Archive for September, 2010
A Fall Chill Beneath Blue Chicago Skies
Today Chicago. The boys and I returned home to Chicago Monday evening, an unfurling bit of ribbon that traced the sky from Dallas to Austin and from Austin home to Chicago. Jackson and Lucas won the admiration of surrounding single-flying adults for their big-boy behavior and smiled heartily in the momentary celebrity of praise. Nicole [...]
a river runs through me . showing up to life
Checklists. Like it or not checklists begin each and every day. Alarm rings, hand extends, terminates the ring, commences the day. Checklists. Whether you head down the hall f or a home-brewed cup of joe or dash out the door for a out-of-home office, checklists continue. Some folks like to inscribe the list in ink [...]
What is New? My Pneumonia for One and Two
One door closes, another opens. I’ve always loved the symmetry of those words and the belief they establish. My only admonition is don’t have your fingers inside either door jamb when those doors close. In one instance last week I didn’t take my fingers out. I had been off kilter with who-knows-what since the previous [...]
