October 2010
2 posts
Interdigitation. From here there is only friction and finally separation.
Interdigitation. From here there is only friction and finally separation
September 2009
1 post
Great Prayer from this week's Lectionary Readings
God, whose love streams like fresh water into the deserts of our hearts, you turn us from greed and partiality to healing and justice. Make us companions of those who long for your deliverance, and give us safe passage at the last into the land of your shalom. Amen.
August 2009
2 posts
“O God, for myself I could forgive everything,
But I would rather be a hawk clawing a lamb,
Or a serpent biting someone sleeping in the field,
Than be a human and be forced to see
What people do, and from putrid shame,
Not dare to raise my eyes to the heavens on high.”
—Anna Akhmatova (1914)
Possibly the best lyrics ever written.
How Deep The Father’s Love For Us
by Stuart Townend
How deep the Father’s love for us, How vast beyond all measure That He should give His only Son To make a wretch His treasure How great the pain of searing loss, The Father turns His face away As wounds which mar the chosen One, Bring many sons to glory Behold the Man upon a cross, My sin upon His shoulders Ashamed I hear my mocing...
July 2009
4 posts
A Few Words From Ivan Fyodorovitch
“Do you know I’ve been sitting here thinking to myself: that if i didn’t believe in life, if I lost faith in the woman I love, lost faith in the order of things, were convinced in fact that everything is a disorderly, damnable, and perhaps devil-ridden chaos, if I were struck by every horror of man’s disillusionment—still I should want to live and, having once tasted...
Never Went To Church
Bought “Never Went to Church” Single by The Streets. Guillemots Remix is fantastic! This is the way covers are meant to be made. Listen? Play
Bookworm
Two days ago I visited a local bookstore called Bookworm here in Sacramento. Everyone knows used bookstores are difficult to navigate, which is part of the fun, of course: it’s like you feel as if you have walked in on this city of books and you don’t really belong there because you’re not a book, but you can sort of fake it because you really like books. Then you snoop round...
June 2009
8 posts
Behind The Scenes new Killers Video →
“The Plain Sense of Things” by Wallace Stevens
After the leaves have fallen, we return
to a plain sense of things. It is as if
we had come to an end of the imagination,
inanimate in an inert savoir.
It is difficult even to choose the adjective
for this blank cold, this sadness without cause.
The great structure has become a minor house.
No turban walks across the lessened...
Welcome Wagon
I just bought the Welcome Wagon album on a recommendation from a friend. Good find!
May 2009
6 posts
Chase, where have your art posts been recently?...
Personism →
this is a really cool website featuring art and poetry. Check out the “Paired” category.
For anyone creative/alive →
March 2009
1 post
Of Frost and Sun
“To burn always with this hard gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life. Failure is to form habits; for habit is relative to a stereotyped world; meantime it is only the roughness of the eye that makes any two persons, things, situations, seem alike. While all melts under our feet, we may well catch at any exquisite passion, or any contribution to knowledge that seems, by...
January 2009
3 posts
the airport
getting to lax is like playing gta 5.
Shake it off, Do it Again
I work at a small Asian cafe tucked away in a corner of this city near the train tracks which guide from time to time a long, rumbling Amtrak painted mustard yellow. I like to talk with customers about their day or their schoolwork, etc. A few days ago a young man entered looking fairly hungover but still wearing a smile. He asked for whatever I would recommend. Handing him his drink, I asked,...
Understanding
“Trust in the Lord with all your heart. Lean not on your own understanding.
In all your ways acknowledge him
and he will make your paths straight. “
These proverbs sound simple enough but I believe the implications are profound and puzzling. They seem to be offering two differing recommendations that somehow wed to give a complex representation of what it means to live life in...
December 2008
6 posts
Death and Potatoes
Today we picked up my grandmother from the assisted living home in which she now resides along with three other elderly, almost-crazy women. They are sweet, but it is quite the wild ride going over there to visit. I have endured ten-second-long kisses on the back of the hand, a false-alarm death, and painfully penetrating stares. My grandmother is certainly the most coherent among them, but she is...
The Twelve Days of Christmas
I was recently instructed in the traditional Chrismastide calendar. Dr. Chris Alford’s blog argues for the value of an Ancient time-keeping during this season of the year. Advent begins on December 2 and Christmas begins on December 25, but lasts twelve days. I want to celebrate Christ’s birth for those twelve days and not forget about him once the Boy Scouts take our tree down and I...
Community
Mike Skinner, mastermind behind the British hiphop giant, “The Streets” groups Christianity and Alcohol together as the two greatest European narcotics. Faith can just as easily be a drug of escape as can alchohol. Sometimes I wonder if this is why conversion stories of alcoholics and drug addicts to Christianity often don’t move me. Skeptic that I am, I often assume that faith...
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Journey of the Magi
I created a series of collages to go along with one of my favorite Christmas poems. T.S. Eliot’s “Journey of the Magi” is honest and provocative, providing an interesting perspective on the nativity story.
JOURNEY OF THE MAGI
T.S. Eliot
A cold coming we had of it, Just the worst time of the year For a journey, and such a long journey: The ways deep and the weather sharp, The...
Logos
Is the Bible the only source of Truth?
The book is a record of God revealing his truth through myriad agents across time. If the book were the source of truth, that would mean the revelatory agents (prophets, peasants, and prostitutes) are mere symbols. If the words on the pages are our source of truth, then the real human (and sometimes animal) agents behind the words are robbed of their...