Chewing the Cud

  • It’s All A Little Foggy, But Let Me Remember

    February 01, 2015 As January slips away so does my patience with fog. After weeks of fog, along with knowing a sunny blue sky is a hundred or two feet above, and because February can hold more fog ahead, my patience is normally wanting. So I am surprised to find my patience fairly intact at…

  • How The Young Are Taught The True Celebratory Holiday

    January 25, 2015 Sunday January 18: Seahawks vs. Green Bay Morning, eleven thirty, driving through town. Oddly few cars on the road. Everyone must be with family and friends. Waiting for the game to begin. Businesses are closed. Except for the grocery store, the new Buffalo Wings, the new Dave’s BBQ, and McDonalds Monday January…

  • Bending Gates and Bending Wills or High Tailing It

    January 18, 2015 Last October I picked up a number of weaned steers. They came from an Angus herd, raised on grass, and certified natural. Just the animals I look for to bring to the farm. I trailered them to the farm and unloaded into the holding corral where they would stay for the next…

  • Table Across the Street from the Reservation School

    January 11, 2015 Preamble Sitting, at the southwest table. The Cougar Den is the only gas station restaurant in town. First bell rang ten minutes ago. He sits, black cap backwards, at the opposite wall table, two in front. She walks in, shawl dances around her, as wind gusts through shutting door. A glance across…

  • Engaging Justice Prior To Movement Status

    January 4, 2015 When speaking about the Christian Doctrine of Discovery and asking folk to consider if their life-ministry-vocation is to help the movement by raising their communities awareness of the CDOD’s structural injustice, a question sometimes asked (perhaps it isn’t as much a question as it is a comment), “what movement?” I think we…