Wednesday, July 20th, 2005
A view overlooking Berea Falls in Berea, Ohio.
Archive for July, 2005
name calling
Wednesday, July 20th, 2005Are we winning the war of words? Both sides of the abortion issue have a vested interest in what labels are most commonly applied to them. Here is a breakdown of the names we use when we talk about this issue online. First I Googled six relatively common labels ...
manifesto
Tuesday, July 19th, 2005"Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee." --Muhammad Ali "The butterfly, a cabbage-white, (His honest idiocy of flight) Will never now, it is too late, Master the art of flying straight. --Robert Graves A Christian Manifesto by Francis A. Schaeffer I cannot read just one book at a time. If you'd asked me about my ...
Friday, July 15th, 2005
A narrow defile between rocks near the end of the Senica Trail in Cook State Forest in Pennsylvania
chez aviary
Friday, July 15th, 2005I'm all a twitter to report: I am a Flappy Bird in the Truth Laid Bear Blogosphere Ecosystem! Wednesday night when I first signed up and installed the javascript badge (down on the right-hand side), I was an insignificant microbe. But now that TTLB has scanned chez moi, ...
nouwen knows my name
Thursday, July 14th, 2005I heard a song on the radio today whose repeating refrain was, "All I can do is be myself." And I thought of Polonius: "To thine own self be true." Indeed I've heard one variant or another of this advice many, many times in my life. "Don't ...
pitchers of coffee
Wednesday, July 13th, 2005I haven't forgotten my promise to take pictures of everything. I actually have a huge backlog of pictures I've taken, but I am behind in blogging them. In the meantime, have a cup of coffee while you wait.
a gentle voice
Wednesday, July 13th, 2005Life of the Beloved, by Henri J.M. Nouwen I am reading Life of the Beloved: Spiritual Living in a Secular World by Henri J.M. Nouwen. My father loaned it to me last Saturday. I've only read the prologue and the first chapter, but I'm finding it to be evocative ...
