Category: Kingdom of Days

These posts are thoughts about daily living, and how to make the ordinary days mindful and maybe even a little better. Its easy to see each ordinary day as insignificant in the scope of a lifetime, but the vast majority of my lived days will be ordinary days. And the accumulation of these individual days builds the story of my life. So I try to pay attention to what I’m doing in these ordinary days as I build my kingdom of days, my life story.

5 Things – What I Learned from the Tour de France

Tour De France 2007, High Street, Goudhurst by Oast House Archive is licensed under CC-BY-SA 2.0

I don’t understand why the Tour de France bike race captivates me since I haven’t even been on a bike in decades. But for several weeks in July, my evening conversation took a bizarre twist, and I started casually using terms like “peloton,” “breakaway,” “feedbag,” and “traffic furniture.” Although I have no desire to pour… Continue reading 5 Things – What I Learned from the Tour de France

A New Season

For a while now, I’ve felt like I’m entering a new season of life. The past year has been a reflective time. A season to explore, read, research, and learn. I’ve written posts about the topics that have intrigued me and drawn me into more profound thought: As summer settles in, I sense that introspection… Continue reading A New Season

Why “Just Do It” Doesn’t Do It Anymore

I’m discovering (the hard way) that if we’ve successfully established good fitness habits during the first half of life, everything changes as we try to stay active during the second half of life. The mindset and techniques that worked to get us active when we were younger can now become ineffective or downright harmful. Previously,… Continue reading Why “Just Do It” Doesn’t Do It Anymore

Preparing for the Unexpected

The email subject line boldly proclaimed, “Cathy, Stay Prepared for the Unexpected.” A drugstore chain decided to tap into existential angst around our lack of control over the future to sell batteries, band-aids, and bottled water. Usually, this type of marketing is very effective at getting my attention. I can easily be convinced to prepare… Continue reading Preparing for the Unexpected

Never Be Ready

God picks unexpected times to get me a message that I can’t ignore. My mind was on my grocery list, but the lyrics of a song made me pay attention to what I had been feeling.

Prayer for A Perfect (Ordinary) Day

After being away for a week, I’m now home again and into my regular routine. Instead of seeing sunrise over the ocean, my morning walk now provides a view of sunrise over traffic. So much of life consists of normal, ordinary days that speed by as frantically as cars on their morning commute. Here’s a morning prayer for days like these.

A Surprise

Sometimes it takes being surprised by someone you thought you knew to realize that people do change. And knowing that we can continue to change ourselves brings both freedom and responsibility.