Tag: Spirituality

• This Land That I Loved Young

  Karen and I decided to do something this summer that we had never done before. We rented an RV and drove through Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, and Colorado with our friends Bob & Sheila. Why? Perhaps this western wandering was a grasping after the nomadic ideal, a searching after stories about the land and…

  brent taylor

  August 17, 2021

  community, Family, Life, Nation, Nature

  Beauty, community, family stories, People, Spirituality, Travel

• RV 7 . Coming Home: These are the Days

  

  We have wandered the west lassoing Wyoming, and taking in OK, KS, NE, SD, ID, and CO. My Dad loved wandering vacations so he took his teenage brother, his parents and three Taylor children and drove the eight of us to California in a Chrysler Imperial that looked like a batmobile. My dad had always…

  brent taylor

  July 23, 2021

  community, Life, Memoir, Nation, Spirituality, Uncategorized, writing

  Beauty, community, family stories, inspiration, memoir, Memory, patriotism, People, Spirituality, Time, Travel, writing

• RV three

  

  When one wanders, one should still be keen enough to know when to continue wandering in a particular direction or when one’s fate is in jeopardy. That may come through the assistance of maps and guides. It may come through the assistance and reliance on God and dear friends. It may come through seeking wisdom…

  brent taylor

  July 18, 2021

  Life, Nation, Nature, Travel, Uncategorized

  Spirituality, Travel

• RV two

  After two days of RV life, I’ve determined that this is not the life depicted in Downton Abbey and if Robert or Mary magically appeared and asked who will dress me today, well, I would tell them you are on your own. Serendipity arises and asks will you join. I said yes twice and no…

  brent taylor

  July 17, 2021

  Family, Getting older, Humor, Life, Nation, Nature, Patriotism, Travel, Uncategorized

  Beauty, Philosophy, RV life, Spirituality, Travel, traveling USA, writing

• Hiking Like Elijah

  Abraham Joshua Heschel said, “I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.” Wonder is one of the reasons I stare at constellations, marvel at newborn babes, and hike with my son. We have hiked many miles over the years. Waterfall near Ithaca, NY The best part of hiking has always been wondering what’s…

  brent taylor

  July 26, 2015

  Family, Life, Nature, Spirituality

  family stories, Gorges Ithaca, hiking, Ithaca NY, marriage, outdoors, Spirituality

• Butch, Sundance, and Jimmy

  Yesterday, sitting in my recliner on a Sunday afternoon, half-awake, my cell phone rang. It was Jimmy. I knew he had just been released from OU Medical Center in Oklahoma City. I jumped from my chair and ran outside because my phone has lousy reception inside the house. I sat down on the diving board…

  brent taylor

  May 19, 2014

  Family, Life

  family stories, memoir, People, Spirituality, youth

• Discovering the Holy Among the Profane in Fifteen Minutes

  I grew up in a home that severely limited my creative outlet of language…I wasn’t allowed to curse, nor was I given the freedom to vent with words that hinted of the real four-letter curse words, the baby curse words like heck and shoot and darn. These were deemed unpolished and tainted by the very…

  brent taylor

  March 26, 2014

  Memoir, Spirituality

  communion, Faith, family stories, holy, profane, religion, Spirituality, theology

• Flashes of Wonder

  If I wrote like my wife talks, I’d write narrative like a kid writing home from summer camp, “I had oatmeal for breakfast and we played softball and I outran all the boys in a foot race and we had hamburgers for dinner…” But, I write like a Red Bull-drinking cat on a hot tin…

  brent taylor

  November 20, 2013

  Arts & Culture, Children, Family, Spirituality, Youth

  community, Faith, family stories, Fathers, Kibo, music, Spirituality, Water well, writing, youth

• Megan’s Hands

  My daughter Jenna and I have a special hand shake thing which is difficult to describe but something that we’ve done since she was very young. It’s our secret and I can’t entirely divulge how it works, just that’s it’s our special hand to hand bond that she know’s me and I know her and…

  brent taylor

  July 11, 2013

  Family, Life, Spirituality

  children, daughters, family stories, Hands, Spirituality

• No Man is an Island

  I wandered over to the headstone of my Grandpa Jesse Davis after Aunt Becky’s graveside service and while standing to the side of his bones (Grandma Mildred told me to not step on folks in the graveyard…it’s not respectful), I pondered his death. Born in 1901…died 1969. I commented to my contemporary fifty-something cousins, I…

  brent taylor

  March 25, 2013

  Spirituality

  community, Faith, religion, Spirituality, theology