Kathy Brasby Blog
No words for that
Words are my thing but sometimes they just escape me. Like the guillotine story. Our older son was 11 at the time. He and his younger sister, who was 6 at the time, were cooking up adventures all afternoon. At that time, our family had 40 acres of grassland accented...
The Bible: repeated images
Vineyards appear throughout the Bible as vivid images. Many references to them appear in the Old Testament and then Jesus used the imagery numerous times in his teachings as recorded in the New Testament. We read about the Exodus of Israel described in the language of...
Google Plus not dead yet
Google Plus is not dead, although I thought so for months. Maybe you gave up on Google Plus as well. Then I read an article by Dave Llorens about the future of Google Plus and decided to stir the waters of my account again. I know, one more social connection to try to...
How a prowling rooster fared
Now I like chickens as well as most people, which is hardly at all, but roosters have an even lower place. I was under the age of accountability (determined by my lack of maturity in this case) when my little sister jumped on her bike to ride around our farmyard. She...
The Bible: dialogue matters
When we read biblical narratives, we need to pay close attention to the dialogue. That's where the action is, so to speak. Dialogue carries most of the punch of the story. Biblical narratives are tightly written with no extra words. Every sentence does heavy lifting...
Connecting with Google Easter eggs
Once the joke was that if you needed your VCR/TV/voicemail set up, adopt a 12-year-old to do it for you. As I watched my grandson at 18 months slide his fingers over my smartphone screen, I think the age requirement may have dropped. But what’s with children grasping...
Is that cat dead or alive?
When our hobby farm was at full capacity, we milked several Nubian goats every day. One morning, when I started chores in our milking room, my 4-year-old daughter climbed onto a large feed box at the back of the room and peered over the back side. "Mom, there's a cat...
The Bible: the power of narrative
The Bible uses many genres but the most common one is narrative. The many stories of the Bible populate our literature and our imaginations. Mention the prodigal son and heads nod. We understand the one who wandered away but then returned to a joyous father. We know...
Nozbe and to-do lists
Contrary to some appearances, productivity apps are not the key to understanding life or unraveling the mysteries of the universe. I'm not opposed to the idea of being more efficient but I'm more of a seat-of-the-pants writer who struggles with the idea that getting...
