I watched the inaugural in the little coffee shop in the D'Amour Library at WNEC today. Luckily, it was between classes for me. First, I wandered down to the Bear's Den in the lower level of the cafeteria. They had projection screens set up down there and they appeared to be giving out free food, but I didn't see a good place to sit, so I went to ( Read more... )

Happy Thanksgiving everybody. A few thoughts while the house is quiet:

• For some reason, I've gotten a few comments on my post about the painter Mark Rothko and plasticity lately. I looked and apparently the post turns up on the first page if you Google "rothko plasticity." So people want to let me know what the art jargon definition of plasticity ( Read more... )

Well, I made it five days into the month until I missed a day. Yesterday, I failed to post, but I'm going to keep going. It's hard to get away from this week's big news of the election. On the carpool down to Springfield yesterday, I talked with my friend D. about how Obama has a big task in front of him in terms of delivering on his promise of ( Read more... )

redbaydreamer sent me a link this morning to a new campaign by the UCC to start a dialogue between religion and science. Although I'm now a member of a Methodist Church, I still feel a strong connection to the UCC. I continue to admire the UCC's articulation of liberal theology, a theology that tries to grow and grapple with our expanding notions about the ( Read more... )

I saw it on the front page of the Sunday Republican in the newspaper box outside the front door of the Franklin Medical Center on Sunday: Obama won South Carolina. I was in my painting clothes, and L. and I were headed up to the Birthing Center to fill out a bunch of forms with a nurse so we didn't have to do it when we arrived in labor ( Read more... )