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Advice at 30,000 Feet

February 8, 2022 by David Anderson 7 Comments

I am not one for striking up conversations on airplanes, but my brother is. He was maybe 22, he told me this past weekend we spent together, and this older man sat beside him. A simple conversation began. As the man spoke, Michael sensed that he was somehow successful, even wise. So he asked the […]

If I Can Just Get Past This

January 27, 2022 by David Anderson 5 Comments

It began, as these things always do, with a routine visit to the dentist. Except that this time she noticed what looked like an abrasion on the roof of my mouth. Had anything happened, she asked, that might have caused it? I might have burned my mouth on a piping hot slice of cheese pizza, […]

When the Head Drops Into the Heart

January 19, 2022 by David Anderson 7 Comments

The key to good decision making is not knowledge. It is understanding. We are swimming in the former. We are desperately lacking in the latter. ― Malcolm Gladwell, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking None of us can be sure of half the things we claim to know or believe. The congressional bill we’re either for […]

How I Turned My House Into Pompeii (And What I Learned)

January 9, 2022 by David Anderson 12 Comments

Crash. Pam, from downstairs, “[Unintelligible outburst punctuated by very intelligible curse.]” I close my laptop and hurry to the scene. Pam is standing in front of a kitchen cabinet, white from the knees down. The shelf has given way and a bag of flour has fallen, exploding on the floor. Two pounds “Let me get […]

Creativity and Hope

January 5, 2022 by David Anderson 11 Comments

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral. -Antoine de Saint-Exupery It was hard work today, transplanting things that should have been dug up more than a month ago. But today was the day. Snow was coming, and that […]

My Wednesday Ashes Came from my Fireplace

February 26, 2020 by David Anderson 8 Comments

Today my ashes came from my fireplace. I reached in, ground my thumb into the soot and cross-signed my wife’s forehead, saying the words I’ve said thousands of times but only in church. Remember that you are dust and to dust you shall return. Then Pam ashed her thumb and imposed that counterintuitive grace upon […]

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