Expanding My Preaching Crate With Joy

Expanding My Preaching Crate With Joy

I recently went to San Francisco to hear the legendary jazz bassist Marcus Miller and other Miles Davis band alumni. I can’t think of any fancy words other than to say the show was so cool. The music was so good I found myself shouting “amen” at the end of each piece....
The Time for Joy

The Time for Joy

Joy is a word you don’t hear much anymore. Talk of it in recent years feels almost foreign. My tongue needs practice to form it. I believe it’s easy to feel this way when you wake daily in a country where an administration seems hell-bent on overthrowing the last...
What Is Behind Our Return To Movie Theaters?

What Is Behind Our Return To Movie Theaters?

  Cinephiles like me are giddy that more people are returning to movie theatres. Yes, we’d be even happier if more people remembered they were in public and didn’t show up in their pajamas and toting loads of blankets as they try to recreate their living rooms,...
Joy That Doesn’t Ask for Anything

Joy That Doesn’t Ask for Anything

I bought a light‑up fish tank lamp because it was cheap, quiet and uncomplicated. It simply contains plastic fish drifting in a slow loop of color.  But that’s exactly why it works. It doesn’t need anything from me, but dang it makes me happy. It doesn’t interrupt the...