They had a who-can-get-the-farthest-in-two-leaps (that’s one word) contest at DG today. Ten folks jumped, including 2 remote employees who participated via YouTube.

To say something worthwhile this short, you have to pay attention to little things.

Then these add up to big things.

Hopefully.

(See the other 6 reasons.)

Everywhere I go I’m asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don’t stifle enough of them.

-Flannery O’Connor, Mystery and Manners, 84

The most important claim in Scripture—what all the rest of the Bible must be founded on—is the shortest: “I AM.”

Sometimes I get annoyed and tell my son to stop asking me for what he already knows I’m going to give him.

When someone is suffering … asking him to be undeluded by momentary uplifting, however dubious its rationale, is asking an awful lot.

-Philip Roth, American Pastoral, 125

The one who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces; and when it falls on anyone, it will crush him.

If I feel compelled to point out that what I’m doing is from love, that may be a sign it actually isn’t.

Jason Harms just posted a song he recorded that I wrote the words for. The music is Finlandia. The interpretation is Harms’s.

I told my boss
that all
the posts at this blog
will be 22
words long.

He asked:

“What is it—
poetry?”

I often hear the construction, “The thing is, is that…” But tonight was the first time I heard, “Here’s the thing is…”

More ink is not always more meaning. Sometimes the blank space where you didn’t write says more than if you’d filled it.

(Read the other 5 reasons, if you want to.)

How does Paul know what can be interpreted allegorically? Does he have license to find behind-the-scenes meaning in any story? Do we?

It probably means I’m too strict if my 3-year-old tells me, “While I’m going potty, I need you to give me mercy.”

A sign advertising an upcoming Sunday school class:

There’s still time to register for The Kingdom of God.

That’s true, I suppose.

Here’s a favorite in our household. “The goat song,” as Orison calls it. Yodeling, castles, tubas, romance. What else do you need?

Rene Descartes walks into a bar. Bartender says, “You gonna have a drink?” Descartes replies, “I don’t think I am,” then disappears.

I’d like to be an interior designer and plan restaurants without a single bad place to sit. It shouldn’t be that hard.