My day began early and with the following two posts on Facebook:1. “The time needs to change. Getting to school in the dark is just not right.”2. Note to self: Beginning a 7:30 ear training class with harmonic dictation in the minor mode is not a good way to start the day.And so went my day. It had an early and rough start, but by my 9:00 class, things were moving along fairly well. Five classes later, I was done teaching…
Ideas flying Crazy thoughts, faraway dreams. What will become real? KEB 10/14/15
Yesterday marked the year anniversary of my dad’s death. In many ways it feels like just last week rather than last year, making me painfully aware of just how quickly time flies. When I look back at my posts here as well as my own journaling, I realize that time really is the overarching theme in my life right now, with the majority of my thoughts being about how I spend what time I have. I am definitely one of…
After what has seemed like an unnecessarily busy week, I finally had a few minutes to stop and take in what is passing at the moment for fall in Texas. Though it is still hot, the trees are starting to lose their leaves. The leaves themselves aren’t the beautiful yellows, oranges, golds, and reds like can be seen on the east coast, but if you catch the sun and the brown leaves at just the right time of day, the setting…
Lately I have found a few moments where my body is still, but in that physical stillness, my mind continues to race furiously onward. In fact, my mind seems even busier when my body is still. This cycle of never being at peace has been tough on me this week. It seems that for every step that I have taken with the hope that it will bring a little calm, there is a stronger force that pushes me backward and…
Time, invisible Yet touching everything. It leaves a deep scar. KEB 10-07-15
I don’t like it when the universe feels the need to teach me a lesson somewhat subversively, but that is exactly what happened today. For no reason that I can identify, I managed to leave the house this morning without my phone. I realized this about half way to school. On most mornings, we could have turned around and run home to get it, but today the traffic was terrible. Weber would have surely been late for school had we…
Despite the fact that we are two weeks into fall according to the calendar, the weather here has not gotten the official word. Temperatures are in the 90’s and the summer annuals are still in full bloom. The oak tree has dropped a few leaves, so I am being optimistic that sometime soon fall will arive in more than name! If you are interested, here is the link to today’s Tuesday in Texas post on Pixels, Plates, and LOLs. Tracey…
With prayers for a blessed rememberance of Brother Francis…What might Francis say to us today?What Now, Francis?Waste notyour tears on me.on what wasor could have been,maybe should have been.Save your weepingfor those who live-the hungry, the thirsty, the cold,the sick, the beaten down, the longing-for those who still have breath.Turn all of your tears to hopeTo fuel God’s work-the death of injustice, pain, and suffering-with joy.Cry not for me;I have eternal life in Christ.Weep only,as I do,for God’s hurting people…
Today is Food Friday, which means I spent a good part of the day cooking and taking photographs along the way to post on Pixels, Plates, and LOLs! Click on over for some tasty apple recipes. I played for a service tonight at the Interfaith Peace Chapel. It was a Taize service with a celebration of the Transitus of St. Francis. Both are moving services in their own right, but experiencing them together was exceptionally moving. After the service, a few…