When our son Ben was a toddler, he was struggling to learn colors, and to develop new food tastes. One day as we pared pieces of a golden delicious apple for him, we asked the obligatory question, "What does that taste like?" Without missing a beat he replied, "It tastes like yellow."
Perhaps Ben is really a synesthete, someone for whom color translates into taste, or maybe he was seeing life in another dimension. Most likely he was just confused, but his words many years ago have served as a metaphor for my understanding of the world we live in. Color can go with taste, and in fact many seemingly disconnected experiences, ideas, and values intersect every day.
Sometimes these intersections are maddening and sometimes enlightening. For those of us who are parents and leaders and pastors and teachers, they are always demanding, requiring the best of our intuition and artistry to tap the richness of the life they embody.
In this blog I hope to explore some of those intersections, to tap the richness of life.
