rod’s blog

Packing for Another Place

Fri, 4 Apr 2008 13:12:38 -0700

I'm just rambling a bit this morning, sipping my coffee. Like most sane people I want to live well, but I'm kinda slow. (I suck at the simple stuff!) Living life well can seem as futile as trying to get a better grip on the wind?! Once we get a grip, our grip slips! That’s why I’m starting to say, “

Beauty in Failure

Tue, 1 Apr 2008 09:54:56 -0700

This has been a busy season for me. I have a large family. I’m part of a group of tribes for which I feel responsible, and which require much of my organizational oversight. Honestly, this is a season of soul-jarring circumstance. I’m also easily distracted. I’ve needed to process badly, but had pre

Humility: Lesson One

Thu, 14 Feb 2008 11:30:38 -0800

Some form of learning is important to all us, at least for those interested in a journey well traveled. A journey well traveled is a life lived aiming at eternity. If we could look back, a journey well traveled should look quite different than one with no aim at all. But how many of us really end up

Resolutions!!

Mon, 7 Jan 2008 10:50:10 -0800

I am not in the habit of making New Year's Resolutions, thinking in my pride that any day of any year is a good day to resolve to change something. If I am honest, I must admit to possessing the fear that once resolved, such resolutions will only serve to be a disappointment because of my largely un

Basic Physics

Wed, 12 Dec 2007 09:44:14 -0800

I was up in the foothills two weeks ago with my two youngest daughters getting a Christmas tree, when I learned once again that one can’t skirt the laws of physics just because of one's equipment. I never studied physics in high school or college, but I was always intrigued by what I assumed a cours