Poco a Poco
Adam McLane | Christian Blog
by Adam McLane
1y ago
Poco a poco. Little by little.  Our plan for this house is revealing itself more visibly.  Originally, this house was the center of a 440 acre working ranch. They logged, sold timber locally to build houses and barns. They had an orchard, supplying the nearby Sugar Pine Mill workers with apples nearly year round, making cider with the rest, including some they’d leave by the fire to ferment just for themselves. They raised chickens and pigs and a few cows. They grew grapes and other stone fruit and had a garden to sustain themselves. They generated their own power using gravity.  ..read more
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Dispatch from Neverland
Adam McLane | Christian Blog
by Adam McLane
1y ago
The heat has finally broken here in Mariposa County. I’ll be the first to admit that I had no understanding just how hot it was going to get here from early July until late August. It was the kind of heat where you wake up thinking it won’t be too bad but by 2 o’clock you just want to hide in the house. The last week of August the misery crescendoed with multiple days nearing 110° F before the skies opened like a fire extinguisher and brought us back to reality. With the winds and rain of Fall mercifully arriving there’s now a little time to reflect on where we are and where we’re headed. At l ..read more
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Dreams are Worth Pursuing
Adam McLane | Christian Blog
by Adam McLane
1y ago
Five weeks ago Jackson and I pulled out of San Diego and headed for Ahwahnee in a 16 foot rental truck from Budget. Several hours later we pulling into our driveway, the truck took out a limb on an old peach tree, and Murray and Kristen greeted us. Tonight, Murray and Ms. Bey (our dogs) will load up the Subaru and head back to San Diego to wrap up. From there we’ll wrap things up in San Diego, pack another load of stuff, and (Good Lord willing) head back to our new home early next week. Your Dreams Last night I watched Adam Sandler’s new movie on Netflix, Hustle. He’s a 50-something year old N ..read more
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“Hey dogs, want to go for a walk in Yosemite?”
Adam McLane | Christian Blog
by Adam McLane
1y ago
We’re just over an hour to Yosemite Valley, truly one of the coolest places on earth. When I asked our dogs if they wanted to go… Murray immediately went and jumped in the back of the car. Inside Yosemite National Park dogs are welcome on established paths only. Generally, I’d say Yosemite isn’t that dog-friendly. If you’re headed to the park for vacation be really mindful of the various dog restrictions that will impact your time there. That said, the Sentinel Meadow Loop trail was perfect for what we were hoping for. An easy, flat walk to get the dogs out of the house. This isn’t Murray’s ..read more
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Our Journey to Ahwahnee
Adam McLane | Christian Blog
by Adam McLane
1y ago
Last night, I sat on the porch of our century old workshop enjoying the timeless cool, evening breeze. The sun filtered through our towering pine trees. We sat in the silence with only the birds and mosquitoes as background music. Murray resting on the porch after another long day of not catching a gopher. I stared at our our dogs resting after another gopher-less hunting day gone by and reflected: How am I so fortunate to be here right now? On the surface it’s not complicated. Our house in San Diego had doubled in value. Selling afforded us the opportunity to take the equity and buy a new hou ..read more
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Shifting Your Parenting Goals
Adam McLane | Christian Blog
by Adam McLane
1y ago
My blogging journey started when we learned Kristen was pregnant with Megan. 21 years ago, using a Gateway laptop, and a now long-out-dated version of Microsoft Word, I wrote daily entries into a documents pouring out my hopes and dreams for my unborn child. Becoming a parent is a common reason people start writing. I think about Solomon, King of Israel, sitting down to write out Proverbs… while infinitely smarter and inspired by the Holy Spirit… he was essentially doing what I was doing on that old laptop: Writing out his hopes and dreams for the generations to follow while also trying to exp ..read more
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Risky Business
Adam McLane | Christian Blog
by Adam McLane
2y ago
It’s late. Maybe it’s still February 26th? Maybe it’s the early morning hours of February 27th. I can’t remember. But I’m awake. Jackson is snoring next to me. Megan is tossing and turning in the next bed over. What are we going to do? What am I doing? Am I stupid? Is this stupid? Is this genius? This is either the dumbest idea we’ve ever had or the best. Which is it? How will I know? Just a few hours before I’d told our realtor that we needed to sleep on it before we finalized our offer. In this case, we needed to not sleep on it. Kristen and I chatted before bed and decided we were definitel ..read more
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What’s at stake for Rolando?
Adam McLane | Christian Blog
by Adam McLane
2y ago
Over the past 7 days I’ve invested a lot of time and energy in my work as the Rolando Community Council’s president. Nearly all of that energy has been an attempt to rally resources to move the needle towards solutions on homelessness in Rolando. I’ve had limited success. But I’m not done. Not by a long shot. The Lay of the Land Rolando is a gem of a neighborhood. As you head east on El Cajon Boulevard, we are the last San Diego community before you get to La Mesa, which is the unofficial capital of East County San Diego. We’re a pocket community– definitely not suburban yet not quite as urban ..read more
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School Choice Matters
Adam McLane | Christian Blog
by Adam McLane
2y ago
For families living in the City of San Diego, today marks the opening for the School Choice application. Here’s why school choice matters, especially for the poor. What is School Choice? It’s pretty much exactly what it sounds like. School Choice allows families to decide each year if their children are best served by their neighborhood schools or if there is a better school in the same district for their child. The upside is this allows families who live in neighborhoods where their school has traditionally underperformed. The downsides are plenty, but the primary one for families is that if ..read more
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The scary place we’re at and how we turn it around
Adam McLane | Christian Blog
by Adam McLane
2y ago
This afternoon a group of outsiders are coming to San Diego to attempt to disrupt the San Diego Unified School Districts board meeting as the district debates implementing a vaccine mandate for the prevention of COVID-19 among students 12 and up. This debate isn’t controversial or out of context in the least. The district already has in place other vaccine mandates, most recently a mandate that all children have the MMR vaccine prior to entering kindergarten, a state law which stopped repeated outbreaks of measles in their tracks less than 5 years ago. Of course, people have the right to prote ..read more
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