It was a quiet morning, and I was sitting on my porch, watching a fledgling hawk in the bare branches of a tree in the field. An adult had been near the fledgling for a while, but now had disappeared. As I watched, the fledgling took off and flew up into the air, only to […]
Month: August 2022
Two Places at Once
My wife and I are in our second season of trying to live in two places at once. When we finished with the first one, we committed ourselves to NEVER do it again. But here we are, once more trying to live in two places at the same time. God has guided her to minister […]
Something to Die For
Last week, I toured a couple of Civil War battlefield sites. They were clean, green, and beautiful, much different than they were the days that made them famous. Antietam was a particularly sobering place to tour. Our guide walked us to several places where ferocious combats were fought, places where thousands of men died. To […]
Surrounded
It’s surprising to most of us how often we are captured on camera nowadays. From surveillance cameras to cellphones to normal videography, we are surrounded, or so it seems. This is increasingly true even in rural areas of our own country. In certain cultures (China, for example), facial recognition has made such scrutiny pervasive, personal, […]