Comments on: Connecting Flights

By: John Shore

John Shore — Fri, 23 May 2008 17:08:29 +0000

Wonderful, Srepard. Thank you.

By: Srepard

Srepard — Thu, 22 May 2008 02:50:23 +0000

I think you deserve an award for honoring your father. No matter what his health is, no matter what his age is–he is not going to live forever, and since he lives in another state, your sharing that time with him was very important to him. There is never going to be a day, after your father is gone, that you’re going to say, “I sure wish I had gone to the awards show.” Even if you had won, once daddy’s gone, you will feel, even more, how precious that time was. That’s the stuff that fond, loving memories are made of.

By: My Point: Reject EVERYTHING, So God Can Arrive « Suddenly Christian

My Point: Reject EVERYTHING, So God Can Arrive « Suddenly Christian — Wed, 21 May 2008 19:55:12 +0000

[...] piece as a sort of knee-jerk, negative response to my father’s recent visit, about which, in Connecting Flights, I’d written the day before. As I also anticipated would happen, a lot of Christians [...]

By: John Shore

John Shore — Mon, 19 May 2008 20:32:34 +0000

"Spirit Matters," huh? It's a good title. I wonder if the book is any good? I think it's real New-Agey. I know! I'll e-interview the guy, and then run the interview as a blog posting. That'll be cool. So I should do that.

Chuck: We didn't smoke in the room; doing so would of course have gotten us killed by California's state Mellow Enforcers. We smoked OUTSIDE the room, on its balcony.

Grace: thank you. That's so sweet of you.

Skerrib: Thanks, too. It was valuable to me. My dad's in pretty awful health; he won't live long. (Then again, I've been waiting for him to die since the massive heart attack he had when he was 39.)

By: skerrib

skerrib — Mon, 19 May 2008 11:09:01 +0000

Definitely time well spent.

By: Grace

Grace — Mon, 19 May 2008 10:14:31 +0000

Time with your dad or an award….

Thanks for a beautiful example of what matters most.

By: Brian Shields

Brian Shields — Mon, 19 May 2008 08:58:12 +0000

The winner of the San Diego Book Award for Spirituality was Matthew J. Pallamary, "Spirit Matters."

I think I prefer the spirit matters you and your dad were consuming in the hotel room.

By: Chuck Anziulewicz

Chuck Anziulewicz — Mon, 19 May 2008 05:22:07 +0000

There are hotels in California that still ALLOW people to smoke cigars???

By: Greta

Greta — Sun, 18 May 2008 16:19:14 +0000

Wow! You and your dad enjoying a 'serendipity' time together . . . (dictionary: 'the faculty of happening upon fortunate discoveries when not in search of them".

The book awards? Not to worry! There's another day coming!

By: John Shore

John Shore — Sun, 18 May 2008 11:43:14 +0000

Ahhh….you guys are so sweet. Thank you so much for these very warm thoughts, and for all your encouragement generally.

Yeah. Parent Stuff. A world in it, for sure, every time.

But. Whaddaya' gonna do?