Monthly Archives: July 2007
An Outside Still Life
Another picture from the Spare homestead. Technorati tags: photo, photography, still life, shoe, lamp
Black-Eyed Susans
Technorati tags: flowers, Black-eyed Susans, photo, photography
This Week’s Free MP3: Take These Thoughts by Chris and Thomas
This week’s free MP3 was featured on Spinner.com and features the duo Chris and Thomas. “Take These Thoughts” is a beautiful song reminiscent of Simon and Garfunkel, though Mike Spinella of Spinner compares them to Jeff Buckley and Red House. All I will say is that if the rest of their album Land of Sea is [...]
Our Hunger by Frederick Buechner
This week’s quote comes from Frederick Buechner via Voice of the Day from the “God’s Politics” blog. We hunger to be known and understood. We hunger to be loved. We hunger to be at peace inside our own skins. We hunger not just to be fed these things but, often without realizing it, we hunger [...]
A Purple Flower
Make sure to click on the picture below to really see the beauty of this flower in a larger format on my flickr account. Technorati tags: photo, photography, purple, flowers
The Prestige: A Quick Movie Review
The Prestige stars Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale as rival magicians in Victorian England. Their rivalry grows more intense and dangerous as the film progresses, but ultimately the viewer is left loathing both of these men/monsters as their obsessions with each other become darker and nastier. Jackman and Bale are very good in their roles, as are [...]
A Barn
This is another picture from Dick and Sissy Spare’s home. This barn also serves as their garage. Technorati tags: photos, photography, barn, buildings
A Prayer of Great Thanksgiving
Over the next few weeks I hope to post some alternatives to the Prayers of Great Thanksgiving with which many of us are familiar. Several of these prayers have been written by Bosco Peters for Celebrating Eucharist. This is his Eucharistic Prayer 1 from Chapter 21 of that book. Please note the Creative Commons License for use of [...]
Hosea 1:2-10 – A Paraphrase
The first time the LORD spoke to Hosea, the LORD said to Hosea, “Go, take a whore for your wife, and have children of prostitution, for the land plays the harlot by turning its back to the LORD.” So he went and took Gomer, daughter of Diblaim, as his wife, and she conceived and bore [...]
Hosea 1:2-10 – A Contemporary Paraphrase
This is what the Lord said to Hosea the first time he spoke to him: ”Go and marry a whore, and have children with her, children of whoredom. For Israel is no better than a whore herself; she has turned her back on me and gone running after other Gods.” So Hosea married Gomer, the daughter of Diblaim, and [...]
