EyeJunkie

On Five Years and What Gets the Last Word

eyejunkie — Mon, 06 May 2013 15:30:14 +0000

If you follow my EyeJunkie writing you may have noticed it’s been absent for a while. After the holidays, I decided to take a sabbatical from writing for a few months to regroup and maybe reframe my thinking. Last Fall, I heard words like “moving” and “inspiring” and “heart-breaking” and even “brave” from readers as [...]

The Courage to Speak and the Courage to Listen

eyejunkie — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 16:54:30 +0000

About ten years ago, my husband, Mike, was diagnosed with depression. The diagnosis was a relief. It gave us all at least a partial answer to the frustrating question of why his thinking was always so labored. Why it was such a struggle to think clearly and concisely and without circular rationale. It gave him [...]

A thank you

eyejunkie — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 17:18:51 +0000

12 Days of Thanksgiving: DAY TWELVE Dear friends, two months ago I made a decision to use this forum to open up some of the areas of my life that had been closed to public view for a long time. I made a choice to expand to a new depth the honesty I determined would [...]

The Easiest Day

eyejunkie — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 23:56:22 +0000

12 Days of Thanksgiving: DAY ELEVEN I felt my own eyes light up. I was trying to follow some story Bug was telling this afternoon. A bear and a baby bear were the key players, and I believe he was differentiating these bears from panda bears in terms of how long they stay small or [...]

The Hardest Day

eyejunkie — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 22:41:52 +0000

12 Days of Thanksgiving: DAY TEN Mike. I’m thankful for Mike. I never imagined how painful it would be to write that. How much it seems to tear my mind apart. He hurt me so deeply on the day he died. In taking his own life. Abandoning life. The lives of the children God gave [...]

Pretty Things

eyejunkie — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 23:01:56 +0000

12 Days of Thanksgiving: DAY NINE We’ve taken walks on the gravel roads around our farm house each of the days we’ve been here so far. It’s one of the things we look forward to. Yesterday’s adventure was a trip to the hay yard where all the round bales of hay are stored. It has [...]

The List

eyejunkie — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 02:56:28 +0000

12 Days of Thanksgiving: Day Eight “One lesson I’ve been reminded of each year in this now 4-year tradition is that the List is best kept daily. Not yearly. In fact, it’s best kept moment by moment, recognizing all the small things that add up to a big, wide, deep life filled with blessing. For [...]

A Sincere Faith

eyejunkie — Sun, 18 Nov 2012 01:28:57 +0000

12 Days of Thanksgiving: Day Seven In my mind, being thankful seems to be always tied to praise — praising God. I guess it just seems like thanksgiving requires an object, and when it comes to the blessings of life, and indeed the blessing of life itself, those thanks rightfully rests on God. Praise has [...]

We Are Here

eyejunkie — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 07:36:26 +0000

12 Days of Thanksgiving: Day Six We are here. At the farm for a week. The kids have been very excited. A week and a half ago they were ready to pack, and I had to apply some Mommy logic to convince them that we might actually need to wear our clothes in that time [...]

The Wrong Color

eyejunkie — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 05:42:23 +0000

12 Days of Thanksgiving: DAY FIVE I have a picture hanging in my office. Let’s face it; I’m the mommy of three young children. I have a LOT of pictures hanging in my office. This particular one is a pencil drawing of a fish bowl. The bowl is nicely outfitted with three houses. One petite [...]