Whenever we return to someplace we’ve been before, memories bubble up like a spring. My memories tend to be visual. When I think of Kidd Springs, I think of the light. Three walls are glass looking out over the pond. The light filters in through the trees and bounces off the water in the pond. Life wanders by outside and …
Packing (Program and Sermon)
Program Sermon Living on the Gulf Coast, you become deaf to the warnings. Threats constantly loom in the Gulf from June and November. When I first moved there, I obsessively checked weather sites, monitoring, projecting, guessing, hoping. Most of the time, storms go elsewhere; there’s a lot of coast to destroy. Even when they look like they might head your …
Packing
There was a period in my life, during college and dropping out of college and returning to college, that I moved fourteen times in seven years. After Lisa and I were married, we slowed that pace to moving only once every couple of years. Sometimes, the move was only across town and sometimes it was across the country. Either way, …