Tag Archives: Family

A Parenthesis Utopia

Posted on May 29, 2022 by Joel D. Hirst

One of the difficult lessons I learned from COVID and beyond (because the world won’t be the same, at least not for us) was how futile efforts at utopia are. When COVID hit in February 2020 I was living in … Continue reading →

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Our Summer of ’20

Posted on August 21, 2020 by Joel D. Hirst

Summer is winding down. The weather is beginning to cool off, at least in some places, and “Back To School” season is upon us. Book-bags and binders and lunch-bags. And face-masks – for though summer is over, the strangeness of … Continue reading →

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It Really Wasn’t So Bad, Before The Mayhem…

Posted on April 5, 2020 by Joel D. Hirst

It’s difficult to articulate, much less to narrate the sense of loss those of us in distant places are feeling watching America’s epic struggle. I am, and have been for some time the King of Lost Places – a reign … Continue reading →

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Powerlessness In America

Posted on October 7, 2018 by Joel D. Hirst

Just as the rest of America, I too was swept away by the Kavanaugh hearings. A popular but unconventional president; the highest court in the land. An eleventh hour spoil appears from out of the shadows of California – where … Continue reading →

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To Lift The Fog

Posted on September 8, 2018 by Joel D. Hirst

There’s a formlessness upon the battlefield. The early morning fogs have not yet lifted; our dead, not yet collected. The battle raged late, waning only upon the exhaustion of the soldiers and the depletion of the stocks of battle counted … Continue reading →

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GenZ: Hegel and the Anti-Millennials

Posted on March 11, 2018 by Joel D. Hirst

We never consider ourselves to have gotten old. Age creeps up on all of us, that proverbial ‘thief in the night’; and before you know it you are deep in online calculators, counting the days until your little boy goes … Continue reading →

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The Coming Storm

Posted on March 11, 2017 by Joel D. Hirst

It’s already here actually – the storm is. It caught up with us when we weren’t paying attention, too focused on ourselves, our narcissism playing second fiddle to no one – even the destitute. When I mean “the storm”, I … Continue reading →

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Perspective

Posted on March 9, 2017 by Joel D. Hirst

Last night I was putting my little boy to bed – as I always do reading him a chapter of the “Cars Book”, Mater and Lightning McQueen followed by the Bible and a prayer. Last night’s devotional was about God … Continue reading →

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Death and Taxes…

Posted on February 4, 2017 by Joel D. Hirst

So it’s that time of year again, and I’m doing my taxes. Reminding me just how complicated life is and how much time was spent last year in slave labor. This year is sort of my halfway mark – if … Continue reading →

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America – In Times of Madness

Posted on January 29, 2017 by Joel D. Hirst

When I was a little boy I would often go with my family to visit my great granddaddy. As a missionary kid growing up in the ‘foreign field’, it was always a special time – coming home to America. Between … Continue reading →

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