by Eddie Pipkin Photo by Pipkin Are you familiar with the nijiriguchi? It is the small doorway that marks the entrance to a Japanese tea garden. It translates in English to “humility door,” and it serves a distinctive purpose that sets the spiritual tone of the garden as a person enters it. It [...]
by Eddie Pipkin Image by annasiracusa from Pixabay I’m in Denver, Colorado this week. It’s a great city, with lots to do and see. One of the highlights is visiting the many cultural institutions, attractions, and recreation and nature spots along the South Platte River which runs through the heart of this thriving [...]
by Eddie Pipkin Image by Andrea from Pixabay It’s Wimbledon time, and one of the greatest tennis players ever, the great Novak Djokovic, is once again pursuing grass court glory. At 38 he owns the all-time record for most men’s singles majors titles, and he was #1 in the world rankings for a [...]
by Eddie Pipkin Image by Walter Bichler from Pixabay In this week’s edition, I will share with you a story of a wonderful night gone awry on account of a spoon – or rather, the lack of a spoon. It is a tale of a delightful dinner which ended on a sour note [...]
by Eddie Pipkin Image by Rosy / Bad Homburg / Germany from Pixabay I was driving down a familiar stretch of busy 6-lane road recently and realized that the local government had invested in some nice new landscaping in the grassy median. I love it when public spaces are given some extra love [...]
by Eddie Pipkin I had a lot of work to do to clear overgrowth down by the lake. There were months’ worth of vines, out-of-control ruellia simplex, and invasive wild taro. And you can’t whack taro with a string trimmer, because it’s a juicy plant whose sap produces profound itching if it gets on your [...]
by Eddie Pipkin Image by Mohamed Hassan from Pixabay I went with the guys to see the latest Mission Impossible movie. It’s an eight-film series, and Tom Cruise has been making them (and I’ve been going to the theater to see them) since 1996. That’s a long time! Superspy action-adventure flicks may or [...]
by Eddie Pipkin Image by AstralEmber from Pixabay It’s the 20th anniversary (more or less) of the invention of the Like button, the thumbs-up graphic used by Facebook and other social media platforms to show approval of a post. It’s hard to imagine a world in which we lived without an instantaneous, one-tap [...]
by Eddie Pipkin Image by Elly from Pixabay It’s the time of year when we celebrate graduates. We pause our worship services to recognize those who have achieved academic success. We attend parties for those we know who have put in the work to earn that diploma. Or we might even have a [...]
by Eddie Pipkin Image by Greg Reese from Pixabay We make a regular six-hour interstate drive up I-75 once a month. We trek up the infamous Interstate from central Florida to central Georgia and back again to visit my mom. We’ve been making that drive for many years, so we know it well, [...]
