What Goes Down Must Come Up (More Lessons from the Grand Canyon) Don’t tell my students, but my legs really hurt. My feet ache. I think twice before using the facilities because, well, my quads hurt when I sit down. When I went for a jog this morning, I wondered… Read more“What Goes Down Must Come Up”
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God Doesn’t Promise that Life Will Be Easy
You’d think the prompt ‘easy’ would be, well, easy to write about about. But no. Not tonight. Five long weeks have passed since spring vacation ended, and the students aren’t the only ones feeling weary of the routines and sitting inside whilst the clouds dance in the blue sky. In six days… Read more“God Doesn’t Promise that Life Will Be Easy”
Warning Signs and Pride-Lessons From the Grand Canyon
Pain laces my first few steps each time I get up to walk anywhere, and the pain has increased twofold since yesterday. But I learned some things on Sunday that I wouldn’t trade for all of my sore muscles and the two blisters on my feet It all started on… Read more“Warning Signs and Pride-Lessons From the Grand Canyon”
Paint-by-Numbers
My eight-year-old hand shook as I carefully daubed the paintbrush into the small, clear plastic pot of paint and then carefully transferred the blob of ‘color 32’ into the small, oval edged on one side by a sea of black velvet. Just three colors left, and I would complete my… Read more“Paint-by-Numbers”
