happy thanksgiving, everyone. i have so much to be thankful for. so, much, in fact, that it's almost overwhelming and embarrassing. but one of the things i am most thankful for this year is my health. at the beginning of 2019, my weight had reached an all-time high, and i was about as physically unhealthy as i had ever been. i decided that i needed to do something about it, but it took me several months to get started. i started in earnest around the beginning of June, and since then i've been running regularly and eating better. and since the beginning of the year i have lost over 50 pounds. this picture of me shows me in the same t-shirt back in march, and yesterday. you can see the difference. today, as part of my ongoing journey, i ran a half marathon. 13.1 miles. #thanksgivingthirteenpointone. it feels so good to have gotten that active and to feel better in my joints and in my energy level. ...
a collection of words about God and life and art and baseball and football and hope and my family and my ministry and music and the immense joy in each moment of all of it. it's a record of being human. welcome.