A good friend of mine dropped me a note shortly after I preached last month, and one of the things he said was, “I think it was the first time people got to see you onstage. You seemed very comfortable with yourself and your message.” It struck me as a little funny… I mean, who was I the last time…
— 1 — It’s summer – the time of year when everything slows down… in theory. My life really hasn’t. It occurred to me this morning, reading this article by Anne Lamott, that “manic” is no longer just Monday’s adjective – my schedule is packed (entirely too much so), and finding time to slow down…
The thing about being an artist is that sometimes you get stuck on something and you just can’t get past it until you’ve found some way of expressing it. Journaling helps, flow-charting, stuff like that – but sometimes, even if you’ve revisited an idea or a concept or an angle on something twenty times in…
