Joy – Karna Eastlund Haugen

Axel’s Year-End Sermon

Be selective, and then be content with the stick you’ve chosen. I can only carry so much on my walk, so I tune out all the other sticks once I’ve picked one up. Check in with your master. Being off the leash means I can go where I want. I find it comforting after I’veContinue reading “Axel’s Year-End Sermon”

Adjusting my Angle on Angels

It wasn’t even 10 AM and I’d already enjoyed a robust self-TED-talk. Axel and I were on our morning stroll, which today meant navigating a kind of strangulated figure eight and we were coming back along a path we had already walked. On our first pass by the little angel figure we have seen countlessContinue reading “Adjusting my Angle on Angels”

Elegy and Ode to Jeff, the Boy We Love

Part 6 of The Boy We Loved, Once Upon a Time – posts about my nephew, Jeff, who died of cancer 25 years ago this week. In the opening sequence of Forrest Gump, a feather floats and swoops, and lands at Forrest’s feet. He bends down, plucks it up and puts it in his suitcase.Continue reading “Elegy and Ode to Jeff, the Boy We Love”