Broacher, Thinker, Equipper.
Do you ever feel like you were born on a conveyor belt? Carried along to the next thing, the seemingly obvious next step, what your family always did, what the “experts” say? I’m happy to creak open that narrow gate you’ve walked by a thousand times, to broach the topic you wouldn’t dream of talking about in public, to think about things from angles not found on the protractor, and to equip you with a big canvas bag full of tools for who-knows-what. My hope is to inspire you to think deeply, live deliberately, and somehow become more engaged and enthralled with your one and only real life. Off the conveyor.
Recent Posts
Draw Near (2021-02-05) - THE Book of all Books The definition of a "classic book" is twofold: the reader is changed by it with every reading; and as the reader changes and grows, the book speaks to him in his changed state. The Bible,… …
My Technicolor Journey: Using Your Bigness (2020-11-27) - One phrase we use in our household is "use your Bigness to serve." I don't remember how we came up with it, but it was probably a long time ago, when it became obvious that big kids would prefer to… …
My Technicolor Journey: Part 1 (2020-07-07) - During my formative years, I was heavily influenced by my quiet but steady entrepreneurial, straight-ticket-Republican, stock-market-watching grandfather whose bold wife killed bugs with her bare hands and knew no fear. She was dead set on naming my dad with an… …
Beautiful Providence Amidst COVID-19 (2020-05-03) - It was a Monday afternoon at the end of March and the Engineer said to me, "don't you know the COO at Johnson Memorial?" Yup. I did. And I knew what he meant with that question (20 years of marriage… …
Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes (2020-02-28) - Why Five and Five? The inscrutable design of the body blows my mind over and over. So you are going to hear about it over and over again too. What has been striking me is that almost every part of… …
A Prayer for Today’s Mercies, and a Marriage (2020-02-10) - My Dearest, You're welcome for dinner. You'll have to let me know if that is the best way we can serve you or if there's anything more or different that would be more helpful. Do you feel secure and deeply… …
Diagnosis: Chronic Buyitis (2019-11-18) - "You are much more than your toys, you are much more than your noise." --Mister Rogers "If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of… …
Lessons from the Woodburner (2019-10-13) - This was the week that Autumn fell onto Central Indiana. After summer-like temperatures through the month of September (for which I am thankful, having gotten the garden started rather late in the season), we got a soft frost last night… …
Ethos (2019-09-02) - Ethos is a Greek word that describes the character or guiding beliefs of a time or people. It also connotes the power of cultural icons and artifacts (like music or visual arts or language) to shape and reinforce those ideas.… …
Beautiful Things, Off the Conveyor (2019-08-19) - I was an intern at Los Alamos National Laboratories, a little mesa town with the largest PhD per capita in the world. I spent my lunch hours outdoors, playing catch with friends. I hit bridges with sledge hammers during the… …