Evergreen Devo – Day 5

Evergreen Day 5: A Whole Heart It was the Sunday after my aunt passed. Our dryer was full of forgotten and wrinkled laundry. My daughter — with yogurt in her hair and a flame inside her heart — toddled around and single-handedly destroyed every cabinet and corner of the house. I sat paralyzed at our…

Evergreen Devo – Day 4

Evergreen Day 4: A Golden Thread Kintsugi is the ancient Japanese art of mending broken ceramics with gold lacquer. Derived from the small word ‘kin’ meaning golden and the small word ‘tsugi’ meaning joining, Kintsugi is a method of repair — a miraculous golden joining. It’s a way of preserving all the shattered pieces and…

Evergreen Devo – Day 3

Evergreen Day 3: A Beautiful Resurrection   I think comedians are some of the most creative, profound, and masterful thinkers of the world because they observe, with such a careful eye, the plain and stupid parts of living. They’re able to twist those ironies in a way that communicates what every one of us is…

Evergreen Devo – Day 1

Evergreen Day 1: A Better Question I am prone to wallowing but especially wallowing in catastrophe. I’m easily overwhelmed. Sensitive to the grief of the world. Distracted by the inconveniences of living, so much so that when extraordinary things happen, I’m surprised and confused, if not just waiting for some other shoe to drop. And…