Doors
Last Sunday the Wilshire Youth Choir had its annual spaghetti lunch and silent auction, which is always a great event, and it took me back a few years to when LeAnn and I bid on a mahogany house door. We were months away from getting married and had decided to build a new house together. So when we saw the door at the auction, we thought, “Why not? Every house has a door. A front door is a great place to start.” Continue reading “Lenten Reflections”
Magnificent Desolation
“Magnificent desolation.” Those were the other famous words spoken from the surface of the moon on July 21, 1969. It was Buzz Aldrin’s description of the gray-white lunar landscape. Continue reading “Lenten Reflections”
Preparing Rooms
A few years ago when LeAnn and I were building a new house together, we came to a stage in the process that we found very tedious: painting. Earlier stages were exciting as the structure grew out of the ground and took shape with ever-changing layers of concrete and wood, wallboard and windows, roof deck and shingles, woodwork and cabinets. But then, everything was covered with plastic and tape as the interior was painted. We no longer could see the wood floors and granite countertops. We could barely see anything at all because we couldn’t stay inside long with the heavy fumes that burned the eyes and nostrils. Continue reading “Lenten Reflections”
