The “Thank You” Wave We’ve all been there. You are stopped at a traffic light and see a fellow motorist wanting to enter traffic from a side street or parking lot. You make eye contact and motion for them to go ahead in front of you. There is a moment after that small act of […]
“Pointing to Someone” He has a difficult job, and he gets little respect. He works tirelessly, contorting himself, and putting his whole body into his work. He goes by many names: Sky Dancer, Tube Man, and Tall Boy. He has one job, and he does it well. I’m speaking of course about those inflatable fan-powered […]
“Ease’em In” I had a tropical fish tank in my room when I was in middle school. By the way, that’s not the kind of thing you tell people to make them think you’re cool in middle school. Eighth grade girls don’t really care about how the angelfish keeps nipping the other fish’s fins, or […]
“Loving One Another” “No way! Had he really written that?” My pulse quickened as I read the email. It was written by a coworker, missionary, and brother in Christ. I had been working on a brochure design for him. He didn’t like my design. I figured this out not because he told me directly, but […]
The Disruptive Change of Jesus “Get him out of town!” “I just want things to go back to normal.” Those are the kind of things I imagine people said about the unwanted guest. Sure, he’d helped a few people, but he had also disturbed the peace, caused the destruction of property, and upset the local […]
Tidy Up There is a Japanese woman who has found success in the “art of tidying up.” She goes into people’s cluttered homes and helps them clean up. Part of her method involves putting all of a certain item (clothes, books, utensils, etc.) into a pile, and then getting rid of the things that are […]
Target Fixation Target fixation is what happens when a person becomes so focused on an object (be it a target or hazard) that they inadvertently increase their risk of colliding with the object. It is most often associated with situations in which the observer is in control of a high-speed vehicle, such as fighter pilots, […]
“The Sound of Hope” As I stood on the upper deck of a ferry boat crossing from one side of the city to another, the sound began. The sun slipped behind the skyline of minarets and skyscrapers as hundreds, perhaps thousands, of loudspeakers broadcast the haunting sound of the Muslim call to prayer across the […]
Going the Distance How many miles does your vehicle have on it? One hundred thousand miles? Two hundred thousand miles? A man named Irvin “Irv” Gordon was just getting his car broken in at that point. Though Irv passed away last November, his record still stands for the highest mileage non-commercial vehicle in the world. […]
And just like that, we’re in the middle of January. If you’re like me, it feels like sometime around Thanksgiving you were thrown into a chute, like one of those enclosed slides they have at playgrounds. There were some twists and turns and the sound of Christmas carols. You bounced out the other end with […]
