…and…
This is Kai-the dog. He goes with me wherever I go and challenges with his very being this idea of an angry, domesticated God we seek to describe. Kai-the-dog has…
fire and tumbleweed
Sunsets here at the farm can be breath-taking. At a glance the image looks like a forest fire or a volcanic explosion. It is just a sunset. It is so…
hooded
We all have our themes; things to which we go back over and over again as if those people around us haven’t heard the thousand times we have said that…
Jesus
When I wake up in the morning I feel like he looks. Determined. Resilient, Trusting nobody. Standing tall even in a onesy. This photo was taken by my Dad when…
stepping around small legs
One day, one of the mahout and I went on a longer-than-usual hike together, which completely exhausted the smallest elephant in our camp who had to take six steps for…
a nose knows
The elephant I lived with for a few weeks in the mountains of Thailand while on sabbatical liked to look at me. The other mahout made fun of me and…
Sabbath and self-worship
This is an image from Prague. I took the photo walking from my home, into the city the day I was hit by a train. I remember, now, how…
Kai-the-dog
Kai-the-dog When you look at me I see God perhaps more than in a chalice silver and crimson red with wine, and more than a paten with ridiculous wafers nobody…
time
My English black lab is named “Kai.” The name comes from “kairos” which is a Greek term for “the time in which God lives.” There are two kinds of time…
presentmomentness
My Dog “Kai” seems always to have a wonderful countenance combination of expectation and presentmomentness. I expect that “presentmomentness” is not a word, but I think it should be. And…