Years have come and gone. This is my journal - A doesn't even read it (to my knowledge). So my thoughts are my own. My dreams are my own and shared with very few since social networking has moved on. Here I can articulate thoughts that I wouldn't dream of posting on FB ( Read more... )

Greenbelt has come on gone. Every year as it approaches, I wonder if I've expected too much of it and having already spent the money on the ticket and flights, go ahead and go. And then I get there and it seems comforting and familiar and a bit like a spiritual home that is good to return to. There are friends to see and programmes to dissect ( Read more... )

Just living life seems to be a primary preoccupation these days. Drag myself out of bed, feed the animals, head to work, look up around 7 or 8 and realize that the day has simply flown by, go home, grab a late bite, crash, get up and do it all over again.

I'm long overdue for a reflective post.

Another busy week gone by and the lion's share of my energy and focus have gone into work. It's a vocational hazard because I enjoy what I do. Back in '98 when I left Landmark to go to work for a management consulting company, my motivation was to get into a place where I'd have more customer-facing responsibilities. I wanted to grow in soft- ( Read more... )

Nadia, the "mission developer" (read: pastor) of a self-described "emergent" church in Denver, concisely describes what she thinks is meant by the adjective/handle. I like this because I was asked over lunch yesterday by A Catholic and a member of a MCC church what "post-modernism" means and how it relates to "emergent" churches ( Read more... )

Frank Rich writes:
Here, at last, is one piece of good news in our global economic meltdown: Americans have less and less patience for the intrusive and divisive moral scolds who thrived in the bubbles of the Clinton and Bush years. Culture wars are a luxury the country - the G.O.P. included - can no longer afford ( Read more... )

I've read Richard Florida's "The Rise of the Creative Class." In this Atlantic Monthly article, he describes the impacts he expects the current market/financial crash to have on various cities and regions in the US. Excellent reading from Richard, as always.

Support for the LGBT Community - (from the White House website)
"While we have come a long way since the Stonewall riots in 1969, we still have a lot of work to do. Too often, the issue of LGBT rights is exploited by those seeking to divide us. But at its core, this issue is about who we are as Americans. It's about whether this nation is going to ( Read more... )

I flew out last Tuesday night to LAX, rented a car, stayed in Anaheim for the night and then drove down to San Diego Wednesday. I had coffee in Encinitas with a cultural anthropologist from UCSD. She interviewed me for some research that she's doing in attitudes towards same-sex marriage. It was a lovely interview and she bought the coffee so a ( Read more... )

It's not Obama I'm mad at; it's way too many of you