[1 Oct 2011 | 9 Comments | 7,648 views]
on self-worth and cigarettes

“Draw what it feels like when you’re not able to write,” Amy told me.
“Do what?
“Just draw it. It can be whatever you want. I’m going to the restroom.”
She was trying to help me overcome my “writer’s block”. I stared at my pint glass, almost empty, before taking the last sip. There were dollar bills with people’s names, or football teams, or hometowns written on them, stapled to the walls and ceiling. A man sat down two stools to my left and asked the bartender how many were up there. I …

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[30 Nov 2011 | No Comment | 268 views]
timothy robert graham // a beggar’s bread ep

Occasionally I post links to songs, videos, poetry, or prose that stick in my head.
“In my arms, you’ll find your peace” (from A Wretch Like Me) is as good of a line as any for a holiday season where so many are hurting.
Since I first listened the other day, that one line is the one that I come back to the most. It reminds me that our (my) peace isn’t permanent outside of the arms where we (I) belong.
You can download the EP here.

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[30 Sep 2011 | No Comment | 359 views]
sitting on stoops

where early-morning life is poured
into porcelain mugs
and quickly cools against the coming season.

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[28 Sep 2011 | 2 Comments | 809 views]
August

It’s raining outside, sheets of rain coming down, drowning everything. I’m reading verses about peace and comfort and a future, but none of it is making any sense today.
“My help comes from the Lord.”
“He will not allow your foot to slip.”
“The Lord will protect you from all evil.”
“I will make up to you for the years the swarming locusts have eaten.”
It’s all pretty frustrating right now.
I saw a woman the other day and it looked like she was having to blow through a tube to propel her wheelchair down …

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[16 Sep 2011 | No Comment | 406 views]
breathing through blankets

In memory of Corion, a favorite SideWalk Chalk student who passed away July 10, 2011,
and for all of the kids who still get to be a part of our lives today.

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[17 Jun 2011 | No Comment | 607 views]
dads.

On Mother’s Day, I posted about both of the women who have been mothers in my life: my birth mother, Vicki, and my adopted mother, Barbara.

Now it’s time to honor the men that have been a father to me.