International airports are a Shopper's Paradise. Getting from check-in counters to departure gates is never via the shortest path. Instead, passengers are strategically directed to pass by every possible last-minute, duty-free, spontaneous purchase. We arrived early at the Queenstown airport. Ready to depart from New Zealand and fly to Australia. Sorry to leave the beauty...
Brown trout. They're hard fish to catch... aren't they, Lord? Maybe that's why they grow so big and fat. Gorging themselves on plentiful food with very little competition. We spent the last two days trying to catch a few. Or even one. All to no avail. The first day, we floated on a huge lake...
The Franz Josef Glacier has been receding. The walk to see just the edge of it now takes 1.5 hours. Up and down, over rocky terrain. I "hoofed" it today... and my thighs and calves are complaining tonight! But my spirit is SOARING! :) Not because I was rewarded at the end of the...
How many people were on that inter-island ferry, Lord? 700? 800? We had driven for several days from Aukland, New Zealand through Lake Taupo and on to the capital, Wellington. Yes... driving with the thrill of being on the left side of the road, with the steering wheel on the right side of the car!...
It started yesterday when our ride to the airport called just before departure. She was sick with the flu. Fortunately, she sent a replacement. We arrived at the airport and checked in curbside. For a domestic flight connecting to an international one. We presented our passports. They asked for our visas to enter that foreign...
It happened in church last Sunday. One of those "Not-To-Be-Mistaken" and "Always-To-Be-Remembered" God Moments. My heart had already been softened by the music. Each note making its way through the "cracks" in the walls around my heart. Sprouting into bloom, like the plants I see growing through garden walls and patios. Rugged, indomitable plants... growing in...
UP at 5:00 AM every day... fine-tuning the Labor of Love that will soon be in print. "Soon"... meaning as little as two months. Not long, in light of its content spanning a lifetime. History. His-Story. Your Story in my life. UP emotionally, when I reflect on that Story. Those Stories. So many Stories...
Sliding down... into an old Pattern. That's where my client was when we last spoke. The Pattern and its Root are not uncommon... especially in our culture. The Pattern is Anxiety and Fear... always over money. Never having "enough." Even when we have a lot. The manifestation of this Pattern is a level of striving that leads...
She wasn't supposed to be here. Gianna Jessen. I just "met" her yesterday for the first time. Through a video of her testifying before a government body in another country. She had been in the womb for 7.5 months when her mother sought an abortion. Her amniotic sac was injected with saline solution, which should...
We tried everything. Every kind of bait. Fresh shrimp. Pinfish. Artificials. Every kind of technique. Drifting around a point, carried by the current. Working the channel. Testing the mangrove edges. Freelining. Jigging. And we came up empty. Otherwise known as "skunked." Not a single bite. All day. Our big fishing trip, day before yesterday. Maybe...
