Archive for March, 2009
springtime in Salt Lake
Posted in Utah, nature on March 31, 2009 | 3 Comments »
a poem
Posted in God, books, writing on March 25, 2009 | 1 Comment »
My coworker just published a book of sonnets about a young girl training to be a detective. He graciously put a copy in each of our office mailboxes.
Here is one sonnet I’d like to share with you (though you might be wondering what this poem has to do with a detective academy—I don’t know yet—I [...]
square-dancing with the Bueno Avenue Stringband
Posted in Utah, dancing, emotions, music on March 21, 2009 | 7 Comments »
Go home to your partner and swing ‘er ’round! Last night was my second time square-dancing with Eddy and his violin school buddies. The Bueno Avenue Stringband puts on a square-dance once a month, and they hold it in the cleared-out woodworking shop of a violinist. That means there’s authentic sawdust on the floor. Outside [...]
another Terrace Hills trek
Posted in Utah, nature on March 17, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Yesterday I had my third hike with Eddy, our second from the Terrace Hills Drive trailhead up in the avenues. It’s so convenient that he lives five minutes away from these trails. Here’s a candid shot:
I don’t know if you can tell, but the Great Salt Lake is shining in the background.
I had asked a random passerby [...]
ladybugs gettin’ frisky
Posted in God, fly on the wall on March 15, 2009 | 8 Comments »
This little ladybug is lonely.
Whoa. What’s going on?
Rated R!
It must be mating season.
Tackle.
Thus ends our Kama Sutra of ladybugs.
This week in The Upper Room devotions, an autistic author wrote about how, in Native American religions, ladybugs symbolize trust in the Great Spirit. William Stillman writes, “The ladybug encourages people to release their frustration and anxiety, and to [...]
journal collage
Posted in friendship, writing on March 3, 2009 | 2 Comments »
My best friend and I developed a practice of magazine collages. I think it started with our planner covers in high school. Then it migrated to our journals. Now we use it on our snail-mail letter envelopes. I wish I could show you more than one collage, but my old journals are kept in my [...]
This time I took pictures.
Posted in God, Utah, nature, psalms on March 1, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Doesn’t it look like you can just reach up and brush the cloud ceiling with your fingers?
Yeah…there’s the smog.
How rugged do I look in this picture? Not rugged enough.
We tried to get to Ensign Peak, where Brigham Young overlooked the view of the valley and confirmed that “this is the right place” to settle. But [...]
