Archive - Ripples of Laughter

Along with so many others, I’ve recently been encouraged by John Mark Comer’s book, Practicing the Way. In it he quotes an ancient Jewish blessing that…

Jun 18 •

May 2025

So often you have to wait until .

May 22 •

I try to learn jam band

In a few weeks I will experience my first jam band concert thanks to my son who literally spends hours listening to guitar riffs and strumming the air…

May 12 •

April 2025

I’m always sad when when I pass these enormous uprooted trees, when upright beauty succombs to a season’s relentless storm.

Apr 9 •

March 2025

I share the shadow

It is the Lenten season, and for me, a time to look inside.

Mar 11 •

February 2025

Some days small talk is all I have.

Feb 19 •

January 2025

What if now and then met for coffee?

Jan 31 •

For the first time in several years I have no New Year’s Resolutions.

Jan 13 •

December 2024

Advent with Lewis

This year I am teaching a C.S.

Dec 23, 2024 •

November 2024

Sometimes I am stuck looking in one direction.

Nov 25, 2024 •

Raindrop Stories

It finally rained this weekend in Tyler.

Nov 4, 2024 •

October 2024

From the waiting room

For those that still read paper, this poem helped me consider why we might find travel magazines in the doctor’s office.

Oct 2, 2024 •

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