My daughter is pregnant, and it’s a surprise to all of us, including her. She’s 36 now and has two dogs and a great husband. They live in a new house of two floors in the west of Austin. Both she and her husband have good jobs and live well. Their two dogs, which live [...]
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My Daughter is Pregnant but is Freedom Lost?
Posted in Brief Commentaries, Culture, People, Writing, tagged Austin, baby, daughter, pregnancy on November 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Thanksgiving at Mom’s and the Uncertainty of Life
Posted in Health, People, Writing, tagged dizziness, mother, pain, stomach, Thanksgiving Day, Thanksgiving dinner on November 24, 2011 | 1 Comment »
We were going to see Mom and sister Ana today to share a cherry pie Sharron made. But Jim bought a turkey yesterday for Mom to cook. Even though she’s almost 90 years old, her back hurts and she’s thinner than a rail, she stoked up sufficient energy to cook the turkey yesterday for Thanksgiving [...]
Is Life Pain?
Posted in Brief Commentaries, People, Philosophy, tagged bliss, Italian writer, life, pain, Pavese on November 17, 2011 | 1 Comment »
A now long dead Italian writer Cesare Pavese writes, “Life is pain.” This is not a new statement. Many Christians believe this statement because of Jesus’ crucifixion, and priests and pastors often say that our world is filled with sin and sinners. But is it true that life is pain? When we are born we [...]
Good to See Gabby Giffords Again
Posted in Brief Commentaries, People, Philosophy, Writing, tagged congress, Gabby Giffords, language, recovering on November 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
It was good to see Congresswoman Gabrielle “Gabby” Giffords on TV today, recovering from a bullet through her brain. She still has a way to go, but we all hope she soon will string words into many sentences. It has been a long, frustrating journey for someone who wants only to make a difference. It [...]
Painting at a Mount Vernon State Park
Posted in Brief Commentaries, People, Writing, tagged Bob Sandlin State Park, landscape painting, Mount Vernon on November 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Sharron is getting back to her painting roots, and so I accompanied her on a windy and cloudy Saturday to a painting class in the woods of Mount Vernon in East Texas. Eight or so painter people, mostly women, painted around a pond at Bob Sandlin State Park, 12 or so miles from Mount Vernon. [...]
No Mail Today
Posted in Brief Commentaries, Work issues, Writing, tagged mailman, no mail, post office, Veterans Day, work on November 11, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I missed the mailman today because I got no mail. Several times I looked in the mail box but nothing showed up today. For quite some time I was puzzled. Had our mailman been kidnapped for ransom? Did he take a vacation in Costa Rica? Was the world coming to an end? None of those [...]
Puzzled by Laws of Physics
Posted in Brief Commentaries, Ideas, Theology, Writing, tagged creator, God, public TV, science, universe, writer on November 10, 2011 | 1 Comment »
After I watched a science program on public TV the other day, in which we were told that time may be an illusion and why time appears to us as to be going only forward into the future, I sat puzzled on the couch, wondering what started the Big Bang. Frankly, I couldn’t see God, [...]
Mom Gets Old
Posted in Brief Commentaries, Health, People, Writing, tagged anemia, elderly, life, mother, pain on November 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
On my way home from teaching I stop at my sister’s house to visit Mom, my sister’s constant companion. It has been my sister’s role, taken without complaint, to take care of Mom while her sons marry and remarry and raise families of their own. For some time now Mom has been weakening, for anemia [...]
Sharron is out Painting
Posted in Brief Commentaries, People, Writing, tagged art, landscape painting, palette, Sharron, spouse, student on November 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Sharron has left the house to go landscape painting with other women about her same age. A former art student, she is returning to her roots. Lugging proudly a French easel made in Italy, she is putting paint to canvas and relearning the art. Today she did not have to go far, for the lake is [...]
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Saw Muppets movie today and saw the past
Posted in Brief Commentaries, People, tagged daughters, granddaughter, husbands, movies, muppets, race on November 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
We went with both daughters and husbands plus a granddaughter to the movies tonight to see “The Muppets Show” movie. I had fun watching the movie, but at the same time I saw before my eyes the changing of the guard, so to speak. The generation who put their children, now grown and with children, [...]
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