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Of Cosmos and Morning Glories: A Fable of Flowers and Girls (Part 2/9)

Picking up a Vogue magazine in the stand recently, I was struck by several ads in a row that featured not only particularly anorexic-looking models, but ones that were unnaturally pale, with eyes seemingly enlarged by context in their bony faces, staring vacantly at the camera with limb arranged in provocative positions. If I had [...]

All Human Stories

Perhaps it was from thinking about him after his death, discovering how much I remembered and how little I knew, that I learned that all human stories in this world contain many lost or unwritten or unreadable or unwritable pages and that the truth about us, though it may exist, though it must lie all [...]

Dancing

I love this video

Okay, I lied…

I didn’t mean to lie, but I did… I said I was going to use a template so that I’d stay out of the CSS.  Which I did… for, oh, 3-4 months.  But now I’m back.  I got tired of the template, so I went back to my own stylesheet (which lives on top of [...]

Text Msgs and Love…

Hat tip to Gavin.

Paradigm shift, identity crisis, etc.

I am a follower of the Man who walked the shores of Galilee and bid people to come and follow him. As I do my best to follow him, I reflect on what that call means in my context, perched here on the top of a hill in just outside the burby-burbs (does that make [...]

Ash Wednesday: Remember that you are dust

I wrote a column for newlivingtranslation.com as a reflection on Ash Wednesday.  Here’s a bit of it: Oh, how cheerful! In our age of antiwrinkle cream and gym memberships, we often seem to be doing everything in our power to forget that we are dust, and that to dust we shall return. Why go to [...]

Faithfulness, not success.

Well, I am back from my many trips in November to California for brother’s engagement party and friend’s ordination, Atlanta for the National Youth Worker’s Convention, and then Asheville for Thanksgiving with the in-laws. Much fun, but too many night without my bed! I thought I’d share something I was musing on… It struck me [...]

Consumerism: the musical

Thanks, chris mc!