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Spring has officially arrived at Augustana. And I am super grateful. All of our other local trails have now closed, so we are walking at Augustana every day. I notice new flowers opening up every day. Even if a lot of the trees are still bare, the grass is green. On our street, this tulip …
Today I am leaving to Return to the Camino, To go on something I’m calling Humility Walk Why? Because bombs are falling in Syria again. Because people of color are being disproportionately killed in the US. Because poor people are sitting in prison even though they are innocent, just because they can’t afford bail. Because …
We’ve moved to Rock Island. Here’s what we’ve been up to for the last couple of months as we’ve explored our new surroundings on the Mississippi River in the Quad Cities.
News from the Chino House Here are a few things I’ve been loving this month: wisteria and tulips playing with sourdough starter imagining a world without prisons walking with friends on Arkansas trails and around the lake eating dinner in the backyard at a table and chairs that someone gave to us teaching yoga at …
Favorites of 2018 Hello 2019. I’m grateful you’re here. There are so many things I am already hoping and praying for in the year ahead. But before I get ahead of myself, I want to take a minute to be grateful for what 2018 brought into my life. So here are some of the books, …
Y’all, I’ve been walking in the early mornings and I found a red UK phone booth in a yard in my neighborhood. Right here in North Little Rock, Arkansas. Isn’t that crazy? I painted it as part of trying to stretch my creative muscles in a new way for Candace’s Moment Sketchers project. So fun. I …
2 favorite salad dressings, 4 favorite essays, 2 books and 1 song. Happy Friday friends. I’ve made several jars of my two favorite salad dressings (Goddess and Ginger) so I’ve been eating salads for days. Ben: Let me guess what’s for dinner? Salad again? It’s been a minute since I did any kind of life …
MLK50: Gospel Reflections from the Mountaintop On April 3-4th, I had the great privilege of going with a group from my church to MLK50, a conference in Memphis that happened in conjunction with the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr’s tragic death. The purpose of the conference was to create an “opportunity for Christians …
I think that a Yoga Retreat might just be the most perfect way to travel. It’s no secret that I love traveling. In the last few years, I have really been digging the kind of travel where you get to soak up time, culture and life in one single setting, like The Cinque Terre or …
I’m quickly sharing a few of my favorites of 2017 before I’m so far into 2018 that I forget about them. These are some of the books, movies, songs and places that widened my heart in 2017. My Five Favorite Books I read in 2017 The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom White Awake by Daniel …
Hello friends, We’ve had a mixture of blue skies and rainy days over the last couple of weeks here in Tübingen. We had friends come to visit and they definitely experienced a bit of every kind of weather. We even had a bit of snow. We headed back to Castle Lichtenstein where we had a …
The boys went back to school this morning after two weeks of being at home. It was the first long stretch of school holidays in several years where we opted not to travel. Mary Polly came through on her way to Dresden. We went on lots of day hikes. We had new friends around most …
Hello friends, Since my last pipeline, I have been to Guatemala, had my mama (plus a few other Arkansans!) come to visit and watched the glorious arrival of spring in Germany! It’s been a wonderful month of connecting face to face with people. Lots of eye contact and soul-nourishing talks across tables. April will …
Hello! We’ve had a full month friends. I finished up my German class, went to Strasbourg, did lots of ghost blog/website writing AND my friend Sandra came back to visit! We went on long walks in and around Tübingen and stayed up into the wee hours talking about everything under the sun. It was just delightful. …
Two Saturdays ago, I was sitting in my kitchen listening to the Hamilton Mixed Tape and keeping an eye on a cake baking in the oven. I had volunteered to bring dessert to church lunch the next day, borrowing two sheet pans from the church kitchen in order to bake my Grandmother’s chocolate cake for …
This month has been a doozy y’all. If you’re like me, maybe you just want to throw up your hands or crawl under the covers because everything is so overwhelming. I have to keep alternating between getting outside and getting on my knees. And I have to remember that these words from Ann Voskamp are as true …
Happy Fall Y’all. The leaves are seriously gorgeous right now. I can’t get anywhere for how much I stop to look at them. All the colors. I started attending yoga this week, a practice I have severely let go lately (apart from 10-15 minutes of child’s pose on my mat at home), and I’m so …
When Janner hefted his pack over one shoulder and heard the familiar leathery creak and saw the dark, smooth spot on one strap where he had a habit of resting his hand, he smiled. He felt a quiet pride about the road he had traveled with this old pack–from Glipwood Forest, over Miller’s Bridge, past …
We are baaaaack! After a summer of sizzling hot days, sodas as big as our faces, daily trips to the pool and more fun than was probably good for us, we packed up our bags and flew back to Scotland. But we won’t be here for long. We’re on the move again in less than …
Hey there happy Junebugs! If you were to come over for a cup of tea today, (YES, a cup of tea, because it is 49 degrees F here in Scotland, not 87 like it is in the rest of the world during summer), I would say to you, Welcome to our chaos. Come on in. …