Alone: Lent 2025

Here we are again. Another Lent. Another wilderness wandering. Another start to reflecting on the world via my very sporadic writings. It seems Lent has been the time I feel most compelled to write. Perhaps because of the introspective nature of the season. Maybe it’s just the experience of taking the United Methodist Photo-A-Day challenge and turning […]

solitude: Red Letter Challenge

Is there something wrong with me? I read “solitude” and my first thought is Superman. Specifically, I think about Superman’s base of operations, his retreat…The Fortress of Solitude. I’ve written about Superman before and even this idea of being alone and isolated. (you can check out my other Superman thoughts here and here and here) […]

Alone [1Word5Voices]

There are a few variations, but many will remember the nursery rhyme, The Farmer in the Dell (here’s one way it has been sung). For the uninitiated, the song is little more than a string of relationships. The Farmer takes a wife, who takes a child, who takes a nurse, who takes a cow, who […]