Into the Heart of the Jungle

Into the Heart of the Jungle

by | Mar 5, 2018 | Adventure, Belize, Blue Thread Life, Travel

“Perhaps I should have paid closer attention to what other travelers had written,” I thought as I carefully stepped over thick mud along the trail. My bags were cutting into my shoulders. “There has to be an easier way than this.” There was, but I would discover that...
From Scratch | An Exercise in Creativity

From Scratch | An Exercise in Creativity

by | Feb 10, 2018 | Recipes

Good granola is like a party in a bowl. Bad granola? It’s closer to cardboard. In Thailand, I learned to make my own granola—the type that qualifies for the “party in a bowl” description. Not that granola is a Thai thing. I just happened to have some...
The Sacrament of Digging Out Egg Sacks

The Sacrament of Digging Out Egg Sacks

by | Jan 24, 2018 | Archives, Healing, Kenya

There was a time when I spent three years in a village in rural Kenya, where I lived and worked at an agricultural training center and orphanage. My season in Kenya had a huge impact on my worldview, on how I now see God, suffering, and poverty. On how I see the...
Pros, Cons, and Solutions for Working Remotely

Pros, Cons, and Solutions for Working Remotely

by | Feb 12, 2017 | Serious Play, Work

When I walked into my office—a streetside coffee shop called Brewed Awakenings—I thought something was on fire. Smoke billowed from a little toaster oven in the corner. But none of the staff looked concerned, and guests sipped their morning brew in peace. Turns out,...

Abandon Ship!

by | Sep 17, 2016 | Adventure, Indonesia

Today was our last day of diving off Bunaken. The weather was questionable when we left, but the skipper assured us it’s changing for the better, that the weather forecast for the day was only light rain. Connie—my friend visiting from the US—decided not to go...

A Change in Perspective

by | Sep 16, 2016 | Adventure, Archives, Community, Indonesia

I felt, the other day, what it’s like to fly. I ran off the edge of a mountain and soared, feeling the cold mountain wind directly on my face. After about five minutes, I landed in a tea plantation. Crash-landed, actually. But it didn’t hurt. I just laughed and...

Serious Play Case Study

by | Sep 15, 2016 | Archives, Case Study, Serious Play

Lize Albertyn-du Toit: Farmer and Small Business Owner When you walk into Lize’s farmhouse, you immediately feel at home. Perhaps it’s the welcoming sound of footsteps on the wooden floors. Maybe it’s the rays of sunlight breaking through the little shutters in the...

Seeing with the Heart

by | Sep 15, 2016 | Archives, Community, Thailand

“Here is my secret. It is very simple: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.” ~ Antoine de Saint Exupéry, The Little Prince Rarely do I compare. I’ve seen too much in life to covet what others...

Psalm 84

by | Sep 15, 2016 | Archives, Kenya, Scripture

I’ve been meditating on some Psalms recently, and remembered re-writing Ps. 84 into my own words when I lived in Kenya. God, what joy to live in your presence, in fact, to even have You live within me. How I long to have more of You, LORD, to live in a way that...