No Photos: Be and Do, A Both/And Week

August 20, 2012 By

The First Grandboy Overnighter. Ayden, 5, and Cadence, About-to-Turn 3. September, 2009. The Incredible Sweetness of Being, Part TwelveI put my camera away the last time we had grandsons under our roof. Not because the camera was broken. Not because I don’t adore pictures of our grandchildren. Not because I think I have enough photos of […]


Filed Under: be, discipline, grace, grandchildren, gratitude, love, Matthew 13, memory, play

Flyaway Heroine

July 30, 2012 By

Cadence and Elaine. Wife. Mom. Patriot. My daughter Elaine and our grandson Sawyer are flying home to Hawaii today. They’ve been visiting in California for a month now. The family arrived in a single piece: Elaine, her husband Rob, who’s a chief in the U.S. Navy, older son Cadence, and toddler Sawyer. Rob flew back […]


Filed Under: birth, child, comfort, God's omnipotence, grandchildren, mercy, Romans 15, sacrifice, travel

Living in Great Big Bites

July 27, 2012 By

Rear: Elaine, Me in My So-Happy-I’m-Goofy Face, Rich Front: Cadence, Sawyer, Vaite, Rob The Best Kind of Crazy“How, exactly do those French women stay so slim?” I ask my niece, Vaite, over dinner one evening. With her fork she nudges about four bites of homemade macaroni and cheese into a tiny heap on her plate. […]


Filed Under: blessings, boat ride, Ephesians 3, family, Fourth of July, God's omnipotence, grandchildren, gratitude, Tahiti, travel

Privileged

July 25, 2012 By

Story Time. Me, Sawyer, Cadence. An Abundance of GracesLast week brought crud, partings, and losses. The weekend began with news of the death of our brother-in-law’s sister. Our niece, Vaite, left us on Tuesday, winging away on a midnight flight from LAX to return to her home in Tahiti. Rich incubated a crummy summer cold to […]


Filed Under: blessings, clarity, death, family, father, God's omnipotence, grace, grandchildren, gratitude, Hebrews 4, joy, redemption

Dreaming up Delights, Part Two

July 18, 2012 By

Dad and Houston, Pre-Ceremony. [Part Two in a series of three posts celebrating the July 15 wedding of my dad, Rod Seiler, and Mercedes Garcia. You’ll find Part One here.]Social GracesIt can be hard to know how to act when you’re five years old and attending your great-grandfather’s wedding–these fancy occasions seem to have mystical […]


Filed Under: 1 John 4, clarity, dance, God's omnipotence, grace, grandchildren, love, sacrifice, wedding
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