First attempts

Photos from my first attempt at smoking meat and cooking meals in the new smoker.

Good deed

I have done my good deed for the day. Some of the Circus Harmony student performers were on the air bright and early today on Fox 2. I provided breakfast. Up at 5 a.m. Breakfast delivered at 7.20 a.m. Back home by 8.30 a.m. Cinnamon rolls and bananas. On a muggy Tuesday morning.

In the house

Fresh flowers in four different rooms. I love the pop and color of cut flowers in my home.

Mom

My mother, Marie Carter, would have been 83 years old today. She died at age 59, at an age that was younger than I now am.

Listening

I was supposed to be returning today from a short trip to Oklahoma City. Instead I am at home, listening to my body say ‘slow down.’ The phenomenon is well-documented: right after a particularly challenging, stress-laden week or month, you get sick. Well, I ended my time as university administrator with increasing back pain, and

Re-entry

Is it time?

Inspiration

From Howard Thurman (1899-1981) — There is in every person something that waits and listens for the sound of the genuine in herself. And more: Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. Follow the grain

#TBT: Disneyworld

June 1975. I was going to turn 14 in a few weeks. We had been to the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention, held that year in Miami Beach. I swam in the Atlantic. Saw crocodiles in some nature preserve. Visited Cape Kennedy. And went to Disneyworld. My parents paid for this chalk drawing

Bedecked

Now flying at 25 Lawn Place:

New toy

I have a new toy. And I am eager to break it in this week. St. Louis style beef ribs are today, I think.