Drew Downs

Make a New Normal

CREDO

  • If you’ve never been, you’re missing out. Traveling between terminals, you go underground. Rather than taking the train, walk, or better, stroll. It is like an underground museum. Right now, there is an Atlanta history project that is pretty sweet. Even better is a collection of urban photography between terminals D and C.

  •   I tell people they won’t get the origin when they ask. That isn’t the story they actually want. That jumbled mess of confusion and diminished dreams pierced by a stunning bit of clarity. That sounds like a grand story of adventure and it is always mundane, normal. The story equivalent of a ham sandwich.…

  • There is something small in the walk, barefoot along the shore; with crunching sand and waves lapping the hem of your jeans. Soaked, drying, sandy, brushed and prepared to return to socks then shoes, then pavement, feet planting and stepping in time to music produced by your phone.

  • Wash

      Perhaps the biggest choice we are given by GOD is to choose the scale of our lives. To observe the word through the lens of a small-scale creation of limitation, or the vastness of possibilities.

  • Wasted Fruits

    One of the aspects of life that challenges my soul.

  •   I’m on my way to CREDO, a clergy wellness retreat. I have a layover in Atlanta and was looking for breakfast. I found a little local grill. I ordered a simple breakfast sandwich. There was a mixup and someone else claimed mine. They invited me to take her (more expensive one). Look at that…