The holiday season lets me smile and tell myself that I'm all aglow with this "peace on earth and goodwill to all" stuff. January comes in and kisses me with a flying snowball that says, "Okay, now, what are you going to do about it?"
Category: the seasons
declaration
So for now, just mark the time at 7:52 p.m., November 19, 2007. At that very moment, I declared myself a Baha'i.
rarefied air
Something happens to the night air when the temperature dips before 40 degrees Fahrenheit.
2010
As I rode a bus crossing the Beltline, I saw a digital sign for some furniture store that advertised its financing program by flashing the words “No Interest Until 2010.” The sign kind of creeped me out.
quiet
It’s funny—come November here in downtown Madison it feels like a switch has been flipped and it's now suddenly quieter. I think there are many reasons for this.
the day the sun crossed the equator
Now here I was again at Gillson Beach with the dome of the Baha'i Temple behind me in the distance--this time as a Wisconsin resident writing 150 miles from my home. Nevertheless, Lake Michigan was once again witness to the many conversations going on in my head, and boy, they were talking up a storm this time.
on a quiet walk through James Madison Park after dropping a heavy piece of news
After I made my last post, I decided to go out for a walk to James Madison Park for some exercise and to think quietly to myself.
a Midwestern storm armageddon, and–oh i guess it passed to the north of us
It's not very often that I look at The Weather Channel website and get scared.
flooding caused by too much talk of rain
All right, so maybe I talked a little bit too much about rain. My heart and prayers go out to those dealing with the flooding in Missouri, Kansas and Nebraska. And while this hasn’t been in the news quite so much, I was struck by the CNN video footage a couple of days ago of the flash flooding occurring in the Oklahoma City area, and pictures of submerged vehicles that I hoped had no one in them. I actually have my own Oklahoma City flash flood story.
hot and cold water science experiment
Do you remember that eighth grade science class demonstration where the teacher would have two bowls of water--one a bit uncomfortably hot and another numbingly cold? And then the teacher would have students immerse one hand into each bowl at the exact same time. The result was trippy--your mind would momentarily be confused as to which hand was hot and which was cold and it felt like each hand was feeling alternately cold and hot at the same time until finally your mind cuts in and says, "Okay, okay. Left hand hot, right hand cold. I got it."