UAB Support Teams

05/09/2022

A final word from the Support Teams blog. The information on the Support Teams website will still be available for any who might be interested.

http://supportteams.org/2022/05/09/adieu/

It’s time to “come into the peace of wild things.”

02/03/2022

"Do unto others downstream what you want those upstream to do to you."...

http://supportteams.org/2022/02/03/now-that-were-1-12th-into-2022/

“Do unto others downstream what you want those upstream to do to you.”

12/24/2021

This post originally appeared in December, 2014 in the Epiphany Blog.

http://supportteams.org/2021/12/23/when-i-went-to-oberndorf/

I probably shouldn’t admit this, but “Silent Night” never really did anything for me.

12/17/2021

A version of this post first appeared on December 11, 2014. It's been updated....

http://supportteams.org/2021/12/16/a-barn-should-be-the-christmas-symbol/

A version of this post first appeared on December 11, 2014. It’s been updated.

12/13/2021

Let Christmas come to YOU!...

http://supportteams.org/2021/12/13/dont-miss-the-parade/

Let Christmas come to YOU!

12/01/2021

While waiting to see a cardiologist . . .
https://supportteams.org/2021/11/30/a-lurking-gnarly-heart-valve/

My dad poured maple syrup all over his vanilla ice cream, seasoned his tomatoes with a teaspoon of sugar apiece, and carried Werther’s candy in his pockets at all times.

11/19/2021

Another reflection emerging from the elixir of my favorite season, Autumn.

https://supportteams.org/2021/11/19/autumn-light-and-a-timeless-soul/

The landscape through which I drove had plunged me into my senior year at Appalachian State University.

10/01/2021

Loretta Herring, who is a part of our Spiritual Health Group with the Integrative Medicine Clinic, is featured in this very helpful clip - so great information for cancer patients, their families, and for cancer survivors. Take a look!

ABC 33/40 in Birmingham, Alabama offers news, sports, and weather reporting for the surrounding communities including Tuscaloosa, Anniston, Cullman, Gadsden, Talladega, Sylacauga, Carbon Hill, Jasper, Hoover, Bessemer, Vestavia Hills, Alabaster, Trussville and Homewood.

09/24/2021

Reflecting this morning on an unmanicured Garden . . .

https://supportteams.org/2021/09/24/god-can-get-extravagant/

“Think of God’s Kingdom coming as a heavenly invasion into the ordinary, an infinite abundance injected into our scarcity-marked world.” Makoto Fujimura

09/08/2021

https://supportteams.org/2021/09/07/love-is-in-the-details/

Love celebrates the details of the beloved and weaves of the world a rich tapestry.

08/21/2021

There’s an intersection on my usual route to work where the winding, tree-lined, two-lane black-top I love, Rocky Ridge Road, meets an eight lane thoroughfare, U.S. Highway 280. A traffic signal hangs over that confluence of asphalt and if I get it red, which I usually do, I know I have at least a three-minute wait....

http://supportteams.org/2021/08/20/revelation-at-a-traffic-light/

Something wonderful happened to me today at the three-minute traffic light.

08/02/2021

The Cahaba River runs through a tree lined channel about a quarter of a mile behind my house. I take a short walk through a public park that used to be a golf course, across a meadow that used to be a fairway, through an opening in clusters of locusts, birches, blackberry bushes, and the huge trunks of mature sycamore and oak, and I reach the river....

http://supportteams.org/2021/08/02/the-gospel-according-to-a-snapping-turtle/

Pilgrim Turtle did not know that it was pushed along by the gentle force of global gravity pulling 1800 square miles of drainage across the earth, and yet, it expertly navigated the move.

07/15/2021

They have this bell that hangs on the wall of the nurse’s station in the chemotherapy infusion pod. When patients finish their regimen of chemo, they’re invited to ring that bell. On July 7, I rang that bell with all the strength I had left. About an hour later, I did the same thing in the radiation oncology building where they even gave me a “Purple Heart” certificate....

http://supportteams.org/2021/07/15/skimming-across-the-surface/

“The value of my life is not dependent upon the degree to which I realize it.” – James Finley

06/22/2021

Wells Hanley is a consumate musician, songwriter, and jazz pianist who teaches at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia. He's a long time friend of mine (Drexel Rayford), and, as you'll see when you listen to the podcast, an extremely thoughtful, compassionate, and insightful human. We had this interview back in the early time of the pandemic and I highly value the experience. And THEN - Wells wrote a song about it!!

06/17/2021

Even my underwear is falling off!

http://supportteams.org/2021/06/17/even-my-underwear-is-falling-off/

Oh, how blithely I’ve said it over the years, “You have value beyond what you do! Your worth isn’t rooted in your accomplishments, or lack thereof. You’re loved above and beyond your list of cred…

06/07/2021

It came to my attention the other day that my name doesn’t appear anywhere as the “manager” of the Support Team Network. I’d like to say that’s because I’m an incredibly humble guy and don’t care a thing about getting credit for anything. Alas, that isn’t the case. It boils down to simple incompetence: I overlooked it. So, I decided that I’d change that....

http://supportteams.org/2018/04/18/ill-manage/

It came to my attention the other day that my name doesn’t appear anywhere as the “manager” of the Support Team Network.  I’d like to say that’s because I’m an incredibly humble guy and don’t …