Writing

HEIGHTENED AWARENESS

I consider Zaccheus a biblical giant. In the book of Luke, he described Zaccheus as short. Luke’s description compared Zaccheus’s height to the crowd’s stature. Zaccheus’s can-do attitude wasn’t stunted when he climbed a tree to watch Jesus passing through town. Zaccheus was a short tax collector who didn’t allow crowd comparisons to stand in…

Status: Extinct?

I started dabbling in poetry a few weeks ago. In Leo Buscaglia’s book Love, published in 1972, Buscaglia wrote that without close ties with humans, an infant can regress, developmentally lose consciousness, fall into idiocy and die. Well-loved hearts live well. A child may have a perfect physical environment, superb diet, and hospital-type hygiene but…

RENTING BENEFITS, OWNING JOY

When my husband and I sold our house four years ago and chose to rent, we sorted our possessions. We are minimalists, so the sifting process was…well, minimal. (We would have a much “different” experience if we were packing Tig’s race shop though)! We moved to a nine-building complex and met a few neighbors. Like…