About Time

About Time

The idea of time consumes my thoughts.

I recently started working out at Orange Theory Fitness. It’s a gym that specializes in interval training. Each class has a treadmill, row, and free weights section. It fascinates me how 30 seconds on the treadmill at a sprint can seem like an eternity.

Yet before class, I look at the time, and I’ve got 15 minutes until I need to be in the car.

I get my sneakers.

I put them on.

I tie them.

And, suddenly 20 minutes have gone by, and I am five minutes late.

Aaaaaahhhhhhh!

How does that happen?

The Light Within Us All

The Light Within Us All

I take many pictures. I often have my camera with me, not at all times, but often. My friends have learned to count on me for pictures of their children’s parties, sporting events, changes in weather… I often think that I am a quiet unnoticed spectator, documenting...
Time Spent Underground

Time Spent Underground

I haven’t written a blog in a while, and it may seem like I have gone missing. It’s Spring and here I am, though, ready to blog on. I spent a short time this month underground in Virginia. If you have never been caving, put it on your bucket list. It is definitely...
Hopefully, what goes around comes around.

Hopefully, what goes around comes around.

I was sitting in a folding chair in my neighbor’s driveway the other evening having a glass of wine with a circle of friends when along came a spider. It was a large brown spider, really large. It was about two inches long – pretty impressive if you ask me. My...
Reflecting Joy

Reflecting Joy

I went to a funeral this past Sunday. I wasn’t planning on it, but at church, several people asked me if I was going to Louise’s son’s funeral. I don’t know Louise’s son. I never met him, but I know Louise. I sing in the church choir with Louise, and I respect Louise,...