I feel vaguely guilty whenever I leave this bench. It’s a white bench, made of marble. It sits along a pathway through the campus of a private school in a suburb of Seattle. On one side of the horizontal slab, black carved letters in a swooshy font spell out my son’s name. His birth date. [...]
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Monkey Knuckles
For some reason, the absence of light of any color coming from my laptop’s battery charger catches my eye near the end of my workday. I jiggle it. Nothing. I look at my battery indicator. 12% and draining. I jiggle the charger in the wall socket. Nothing. My brain pops memories of the thing starting [...]
Over the EDGE
Since early February, I’ve been spending my Saturdays locked in a conference room at Seattle Pacific University with 14 other writers. We were selected to participate in the EDGE professional development program for artists managed by Artist Trust in Seattle. On March 26, we graduate, and you’re invited. From 1 to 4 pm Saturday, each [...]
Prayer Post 3: When and Where Will This Agnostic Pray?
Where and when will you pray? In my 17-day test period, I tried several different approaches, and what I concluded is that I need a special little place at home, plus something I can always take with me that can anchor me into the prayer mindset wherever I go. Of the 11 prayer days during [...]
Prayer Post 1: How This Agnostic Did In My 17-Day Test of the Power of Prayer
A bit more than two weeks ago I wrote a post about prayer. My friend and Chinese herbal medicine and Shiatsu practitioner, Brad, had asked me one day “Do you pray?” In that mid-October post, I publicly challenged myself to pray every day for the rest of the month – 17 days — and then [...]