As long as I can remember, I have always liked to write. Never minded papers in school and almost always have a notebook on hand to trap thoughts in ink before they’re lost. Sometimes I use writing as a clarifying or an emptying from everything going on in my head. Can’t say it always proves […]
I’m a savage.
11.28.2020 Dad, Mom and I went out shopping this morning to support Small Business Saturday. She was looking around in a couple stores in Downtown Frankfort, and I wanted to walk over to the trail by the pond. It was a sunny, crisp morning. The water in the pond was lazily brushing up onto the […]
5v5 brings out the worst in us.
11.13.2020 Dad, We played a five versus five tournament at training last night. With the rest of the season postponed until the spring, we don’t have any games to prepare for, so training has been mostly technical activities and small games to goal. After the fall season was over in college, we often would do […]
Morality and legality of abortion.
My vote.
10.27.2020 Dad, This is about to be new territory for me. Much more your expertise. I wish now we could have conversations about it. After all, you took me the first time I could vote. I actually remember the day very well. I don’t have very many memories from when you were healthy, but that […]
The most august mystery.
10.22.20 Dear dad, Woe is me, how I love so poorly. How I barely know what love is. I am loved, I know this. You and mom loved me ever so well. But love can only exist in relationship, and I am afraid I resisted much of your love. Yours specifically. I am letting mom, […]
Jesus on Pusher Street.
10.12.2020 Dad, I have had a bit of writer’s block lately you could say. A brilliant idea or revelation took shape in my thoughts probably three weeks ago now, and I have yet to flesh it out. Every time I think about writing on it, my mind is blank. Or maybe distracted. I have a […]
My first love.
9.23.2020 Dad, “When people read the Apocalypse, they get frightened by the earthquakes and locusts and famines and scorpions. But the only reason God would allow these things is because He loves us. The world is good- make no mistake about that- but the world is not God. If we’ve allowed the world and its […]
A far green country.
9.13.2020 Dad, A far green country. It is a track on The Lord of the Rings film score, but it is also Denmark. In the movie, the far green country is the Shire, where the hobbits live. It is where Bilbo, Frodo and Sam are from. At the end of the first Hobbit movie, the […]
Koinonia.
8.31.2020 Dad, I am reading The Last Supper by Scott Hahn, a former Protestant pastor who joined the Catholic church. It is a fascinating and enlightening explanation of the relationship between the Book of Revelation in the Bible and the Catholic Mass. Hahn says the Catholic Mass is the key to unraveling the mystery of […]
The arena.
8.19.20 Dad, I have been waiting on this a long time. Mulling over when and how to express something so lofty. So precious as life. Like holding a bird in your hands. Cupping them firmly enough so he doesn’t fly away but gently so as not to harm him. I think the truth is often […]