“Look here, I am doing something new just now. Do you not see it? It’s like streams in the desert or a path through the darkness.” This time of year we often read this passage from the writings of the Old Testament prophet Isaiah.
One of my favorite writers and poets, Mark Nepo, writes that we begin life so aware and grateful.
Uncle Mac was pretty tightly wound. Between running a small ranch lease, two Laundromats, and doing land specs for mineral rights across the state, he was pretty stressed most of the time.
Thanksgiving is coming up and I’m thinking of time with family — the challenges and opportunities that can often present.
A good friend of mine, storyteller and National Endowment for the Arts treasure, Elizabeth Ellis, was once asked what was her most treasured story is and she said, “I knew a man who lived in hell. He could never leave, though.
When I was a kid, I used to hang out with a friend who lived with his two younger sisters, older brother, and single mom.
I was driving through downtown Fort Worth yesterday, another soggy, cold day of rain. How many days of this now?
I saw some kids in our neighborhood the other day playing hide-and-seek. It’s great to see families outside in these first days of October.
Perhaps you remember this one. The kingdom of heaven is like this…
My friend and Chicago storyteller, Jim May, tells this story:
The old man had slept the night at the edge of the village.
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