Tony Campolo was the speaker at this year’s Yearly Meeting for the Northwest Yearly Meeting of Friends, and I happened to be the one responsible for the live streaming of it (you can still go watch the video on the site). He spoke three times, but there was one topic that has stuck with me [...]
Categories: God Type Things,Grown Up Stuff,Politics
Tagged: authority, NWYM, power, Tony Campolo
I heard an interview with David Rothkopf about his article in the Washington Post, and he talked about how there is somewhat of a cycle to economic policy. That’s started me thinking about economic policy, and where we are going to go in the next few years. The last time the US was in this [...]
Categories: Grown Up Stuff,Politics
Tagged: economy
Last summer our HOA decided to start enforcing the rules, and they started cracking down on brown lawns. I did my best to keep the lawn green with typical sprinklers, but there were two big issues with it: I had to remember to turn the sprinklers on I had to remember to turn the sprinklers off There [...]
Categories: Grown Up Stuff
Tagged: sprinklers, yard
You might be wondering what I’ve been up to in recent days/weeks/months. So do I. Just a couple of things to mention today. Back in the fall I started a job split, keeping half of my old job in Admissions, and picking up some responsibilities in the IT (Administrative Computing side) office. The university has [...]
So tonight in our small group it was my turn to share some of my spiritual journey. As I’ve been doing my mental preparation for it over the last couple of weeks I’ve been looking at things from my past with my present-day glasses on. The more I looked at a situation from 15+ years [...]
Categories: God Type Things
Tagged: worship
Judah has been walking around tonight talking about Artoo, Prince-a Way-a, and Yoyo. He can’t find Artoo and Prince-a Way-a. “Where’s Artoo, dad?” He might be the youngest boy ever to have a crush on Princess Leia.
Categories: Being a Kid,Family
Tagged: Princess Leia, R2-D2, Star Wars, Yoda
Today the spectacle known as the Olympic Torch Relay passed through San Francisco, but nobody who really wanted to see it — for or against — got to see it. Not that people didn’t try to find the updated route. Man Twitter is getting some interesting publicity out of this. “Twitterati,” I love it! BTW, [...]
Categories: Uncategorized
Tagged: China, Frank Deford, Morning Edition, NPR, Olympic Torch, San Francisco, Tibet, Twitter