How a weekend camping with two other black families led to healing and restoration.
Tag: parenting
A dream (not) deferred…
One of my favorite poems from my youth is the Langston Hughes classic that reads: What happens to a dream deferred?Does it dry upLike a raisin in the sun?Or fester like a sore–And then run?Does it stink like rotten meat?Or crust and sugar over–like a syrupy sweet?Maybe it just sagslike a heavy load.Or does it…
Learning to let go (again)…
Not bad for her first driving lesson. Not bad for me, either.
When there’s too much to do…
Sometimes it’s the abundance of options that’s our biggest obstacle.
Be a thermostat, not a thermometer
Parenting: an unexpected masterclass in flexibility.
Abundance always finds a way
What if we lived as if we trusted abundance to always find a way?
Dadman Walking Daze
Thankful for the moments that snap me out of the “dadman walking” daze.
Savoring the wins
The best parenting wins are the ones you least expect.
What happens next?
It’s slow work building a life, but the future always comes.
From faith to faith
As an adult, and especially as a parent for the past 15 years, I’ve come to embrace a more complex version of faith, one where questions hold more weight than answers.
