December 2011
9 posts
Me, a Fish & Emmanuel
I’ve been wanting to write down my fish story properly this week, so here goes [pulls keyboard onto lap]…
I was about 5 years old. I still had a speech impediment and didn’t know it. I loved catching green anoles, spiny lizards, and toads. I wasn’t afraid of handling creepy things like earthworms, especially when it meant catching a fish on PawPaw’s farm.
Or...
Presumption
“If ye have faith and doubt not, if ye shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed and cast into the sea, it shall be done.” Good people….have been tempted to tempt the Lord their God upon the strength of this saying….Happily for such, the assurance to which they would give the name of faith generally fails them in time. Faith is that which, knowing the Lord’s will,...
“We don’t need a list of rights and wrongs, tables of dos and don’ts: we need...”
– — Philip Pullman
Interesting quote about reading/writing. “Thou shalt not” is very Old Testament/Moses, but when Jesus came, he told stories.
“Once when Season and Cambryn were little, I went in the garage and told them I...”
– My Mom
My Shirt With Thumb Holes Started It
The hole on my sleeve is the gnawingest thing on my brain right now. I bought this shirt when I was old enough to know better than to buy this shirt. It’s juvenile . But now I have it. Now I need to save money. Now I must continue to wear it. I suppose I could get out of it by making yet another shirt purchase, but I fear I would hate myself far more if I was to continue to wallow in my...