Marginalia

2009

December
November 10
October 1
September 8
August 19
July
June 5
May 2
April 52
March 317
February 243
January 23

2008

December 12
November 24
October 15
September 14
August 37
July 24
June 24
May 36
April 21
March 65
February 83
January 85

2007

December 20
November 13
October 48
September 129
August 201
July 165
June
May
April
March
February
January
Alaska Robotics - Films - Socks
Aug 31st
“Jesus looked up and saw the rich putting their gifts into...”
— Luke 21: 1-4 English Standard...
Aug 31st
Widow's Mite
Aug 31st
The Widow’s Mite — James Christensen
Aug 31st

ALL OF LITTLE IS EVERYTHING

In the temple in Jerusalem there were bronze “trumpets” where people placed their...
Aug 31st
The King of Me — Charles Bragg
Aug 31st
Baby Panda Sneezes - CollegeHumor video
Aug 30th
Expectations — Christophe Vacher
Aug 29th
Expectations (detail) Christophe Vacher
Aug 29th
The Promised Land — Bruno Schmeltz
Aug 29th
Needle In A Haystack — Jimmy Lawlor
Aug 29th

The Perversity of Protoplasm

In times of high anxiety we become very earnest indeed. I find it interesting that in this time...
Aug 29th
Bactrian Camel
Aug 29th
“A man once asked a camel whether he prefered going uphill or...”
— Sufi saying
Aug 29th
YesButNoButYes: Alpha Male
Aug 28th
Aug 28th
Wine Press
Aug 28th
Make Up Your Mind — Myth
Aug 28th
“The Different Ways of story — “This basic typology can...”
— [The Dark Interval: Toward A...
Aug 28th
Warch Watch
Amazing Pet Hippo Video (via Metacafe)
Aug 27th
The Day Dream — Jimmy Lawlor
Aug 27th
Coublebubble —  Swartz
Aug 27th
“Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache. ...”
Aug 27th
When Love Hurts
Aug 27th

COUPLE AT THE MOVIES

He: “Can you see alright?”
She: “Yes.”
He: “Is there a draft on you?
She: “No.”
He: “Is your seat comfortable?”
She: “Yes.”
He: “Will you change with me?”
Aug 27th
First Date — Erica Hopper
Aug 27th

The Babel Story

Since I have been writing this blog I have found so much material quoting the tower of babel story....
Aug 27th
carnival tower of babel
Aug 26th
Tower of Babel 1
Aug 26th
Wessi
Aug 26th
The Horn of Babel — Vladamir Kush
Aug 26th
Train to Heaven — Mark Bryan
Aug 26th
Babel Bunny — Mark Bannerman
Aug 26th
Aug 26th
Aug 26th
Aug 26th
“  “We are at the beginning of a new era of Christianity....”
— IN THE FIRE OF THE BURNING...
Aug 26th
Lucan Summertime — George Oakley
Aug 25th
“ APPLE* (Malus spp.) A dense, fine-grained, rosy-coloured...”
Aug 25th
Sacred Wood — Arnold Bocklin
Aug 25th

Orchard Planting

Orchards are planted for the future.  If we have fruit in our own day it is because someone made...
Aug 25th
Handicap — Rudolf Hausner
Aug 25th
“The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose...”
— - Nelson Henderson
Aug 25th
Steiner — durchgangiv
Aug 23rd
“gamblers all sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning...”
— Charles Bukowski
Aug 23rd
Glory To The Creator — Stanislav Voitekhovsky
Aug 23rd

There And Back Again

There And Back Again — is the novel in a novel in the Lord of the Rings. The Hobbit, Bilbo...
Aug 23rd
Aug 23rd
“Sight is free and sight is irresponsible. I can cast my eye...”
— Touch — Gabriel...
Aug 23rd
Seascape With Clowns — Mark Bryan
Aug 22nd
“I never failed once. It just happened to be a 2000-step...”
—  Thomas Edison, American...
Aug 22nd
Warch Watch
Kittens-Coca Cola Box Video (via Metacafe)  Playfulness is an essential part of creativity. These...
Aug 22nd
The word gradual comes from Latin word for stair. A famous...
Aug 22nd
“Worship and Paschal Identity p. 38 “My primary claim is that...”
— Sacramental Ethics: Paschal...
Aug 22nd
Ant and the Grasshopper
Aug 22nd

The Inevitability of Gradualness

Creativity is not magic. Creativity can be nothing more than wishful thinking if it is not captured...
Aug 22nd
Eric Hoffer
Aug 22nd
“A MATTER OF MOMENTS Actual creativeness is a matter of...”
— Eric Hoffer 1956
Aug 22nd
The Tree of Wishes — David Popiashvili
Aug 21st

Not How Strong But How Resilient!

We will not think or will our way out of difficulties. We will, however, pray and play our way...
Aug 21st
After Rain — Xiangyuan Jie
Aug 21st
The Visitor — Candence Gamache
Aug 21st

The 'fruit of the Spirit' is in...

· love; · joy; · peace; · patience; · kindness; · ...
Aug 21st
The Source — Christophe Vacher
Aug 21st
“In the Aramaic language, the word “satisfaction”...”
Aug 21st
Adam — Rudolf Hauser
Aug 20th
The Art of Looking
Aug 20th
Jamin — Freedom Is Great
Aug 20th
MacGyver - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Aug 20th

Level One or Level Two?

I am fascinated by the discovery of the atomic slime in Savannah. It reads like bad science fiction...
Aug 20th
Aug 20th
“Organism found at SRS amazes scientific world By Rob Pavey...”
— Reach Rob Pavey at 868-1222,...
Aug 20th
Warch Watch
Adagio in G Minor (via eddiexplorer)
Aug 19th
Wind
Aug 19th

There Are Two Kinds of Death

There are two kinds of death: terminal and paschal. Both are real but terminal death is just what it...
Aug 19th
Loaded? But for Where?
Aug 19th
“RESURRECTION 1. We must let the story of the resurrection...”
— Morton Kelsey [p. 152]
Aug 19th
Faces Suite — Hessan Abrishami
Aug 18th
Elephant In The Living Room
Aug 18th
Aug 18th

I'm Standing Up On the Inside

A family was driving in the car on a trip.  The little girl insisted on standing up right behind her...
Aug 18th
The Expulsion
Aug 18th
“The Invitation It doesn’t interest me what...”
— By Oriah Mountain Dreamer
Aug 18th
Aug 17th
Noemova archa — Peter Marcek
Aug 17th
Honey House
Aug 17th
“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an...”
—  Robert A. Heinlein
Aug 17th
honeycomb
Aug 17th

God Has No Grandchildren

“The results of the neglect of the Holy Spirit by many sections of the Church have been utterly...
Aug 17th
Five Persons Around A Water Hole — Odd Nerdrum
Aug 17th
“There is no power for change  greater than a community...”
— Margaret Wheatley —...
Aug 17th
Digging Underneath — Xue Jiye
Aug 17th
“It’s not differences that divide us. It’s our...”
— Margaret Wheatley —...
Aug 17th
Holy Light — Gilad Benari
Aug 16th

The Scandal of Particularity

How could the life of one man effect us all! This is the scandal of Jesus who claims not to be a...
Aug 16th
O Cheek Like A Swan
Aug 16th
“5. The Crucifixion At the cry of the first bird They began...”
— from Hermit Songs, op. 29...
Aug 16th
John Polkinghorne
Aug 16th

How the resurrection makes sense

JOHN POLKINGHORNE How to understand the Christian hope of the resurrection of the body against...
Aug 16th
Craig kosak — Spring (detail)
Aug 16th
“ORDERED FREEDOM”
Aug 15th
The presence of an angel in chaos of life 2002 Victor...
Aug 15th
“We want to escape the tensions of ambiguity and uncertainty,...”
— Seven Life Lessons of Chaos...
Aug 15th
Mycoplasma pneumonia
Aug 15th
Flame Fractal
Aug 15th

Ordered Freedom

We spend a lot of time and energy willing things to be different than they are. We often assume the...
Aug 15th
Amazon.com: Three Golden Ages: Discovering...
Aug 15th
Monotype Joseph Bellacera
Aug 15th
“Chaotic systems lie beyond all our attempts to predict,...”
— Seven Life Lessons of Chaos:...
Aug 15th
Randersaker — Matthias Haltenholf
Aug 14th

Are we there yet?

I do not drive a car with the satellite system that talks back when your are lost or locked the keys...
Aug 14th
Destiny — Inebriantia
Aug 14th
“We’re not lost. We’re locationally challenged. ”
— John M. Ford
Aug 14th
Nocturne 2 Mathias Haltenhof
Aug 14th
“In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself...”
— Dante Alighieri (1265 - 1321),...
Aug 14th
Philip Straub
Aug 14th
“The path to our destination is not always a straight one. We...”
— Barbara Hall, Northern...
Aug 14th
“All that is gold does not glitter; not all those that wander...”
— J. R. R. Tolkien (1892 -...
Aug 14th
Opis — Jaden Konceptow
Aug 13th
Pilgrim
Aug 13th
Samarkand
Aug 13th
“Ithaca by Konstantinos Kavafis (1911) As you set...”
Aug 13th
Souljerky: South Park Zen: Alan Watts, Trey...
Aug 13th
“Be with us, Lord, who are yet on our pilgrimage”
Aug 13th
John Waltin Liberto
Aug 12th
Duzego Dzsonka
Aug 12th

What Time Is It?

I am asked to add to a full calendar as if I could borrow time or cut and paste time to suit myself....
Aug 12th
Amazon.com: Einstein's Dreams: Books: Alan...
Aug 12th
Jasper Johns — Between the Clock and the Bed
Aug 12th
“For a life in the past cannot shared with the present. Each...”
— Alan Lightman    from —...
Aug 12th
Aug 11th

Babeling Still

The tower of babel story is a story of limits.  Humans get into trouble when we begin to think we...
Aug 11th
Adam’s Tower —  Wassi
Aug 11th
“When the discover the center of the universe, a lot of...”
— Bernard Baily
Aug 11th
Tower of Babel
Aug 11th

A Sudden Reframe!

Suddenly things change! Like the Montana, the biggest, baddest thing afloat, meeting a thing of a...
Aug 11th
Warch Watch
(via Google Video)
Aug 11th
Sarah Laughed Bryan FolkArt
Aug 10th

Laughter And Tears

A passage from Telling The Truth: The Gospel as Tragedy, Comedy & Fairy Tale by Frederick...
Aug 10th
San Vitale — Ravenna
Aug 10th
“Sarah laughed”
— Genesis 18:12
Aug 10th
Aug 9th
“All creation dances to the degrees of its freedom.”
Aug 9th
Everything has its degree of freedom
Aug 9th
Wave — Spore  Image-Savant
Aug 9th
“It is a greater sin not to dance in Easter than not to fast...”
— Father David Bargetzi
Aug 9th
Omega Liturgical Dance Company at Investiture of Presiding...
Aug 9th

One Must Dance

I have never been much of a dancer. Although a “ham” in many ways, I just do not have...
Aug 9th
Warch Watch
Easter Vigil: Saint Gregory of Nyssa Episcopal Church (via candlefoot)
Aug 9th
Funny Monuments
Aug 8th
“To escape your prison invest in it. Study the walls built...”
— Hugo J. K. de Vries
Aug 8th
Arm Eyes
Aug 8th

Vision Is Not Just About Eyes

The blindest folk I have ever encountered have been those who willfully had their hands over their...
Aug 8th
leadership - Ben Zander
Aug 8th
Vision is knowing where you are going!
Aug 8th
“If you want to build a boat, do not instruct the men to saw...”
— Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Aug 8th
Temptation: Thoughtful or Reactive?
Aug 7th
If -- Rudyard Kipling
Aug 7th
Charles Bragg — The Janus
Aug 7th
“Why does our thinking change when we arrive at work?  ”
— Kathleen Wiseman
Aug 7th
Chrarles Bragg — A Riddle
Aug 7th

AUTOMATIC OR THOUGHTFUL

So much of what passes for thinking is mental activity, reactive and automatic. The higher the...
Aug 7th
Wedding at Saint John’s from the tower room entrance
Aug 6th

On Saturday There Was A Wedding At...

On August fourth I presided at the celebration and blessing of a marriage at Saint John’s. ...
Aug 6th
He Qi — The Marriage Feast At Cana
Aug 6th
“St. John tells how, at Cana’s wedding-feast, The...”
— Richard Wilber, Poet Laureate...
Aug 6th
Marriage Feast at Cana — Cameroon
Aug 6th
“…there was a wedding at Cana of Galilee, and the...”
— John 2
Aug 6th
The Marriage Feast At Cana — Jan Vemeryen (ca. 1530)...
Aug 6th
Tree of Life
Aug 5th
Dr. Helen Barnes — Early Mississipppi Black Female...
Aug 5th

Breathing In and Out: Toward a Real...

It’s about breathing. Dr. Helen Barnes (a hero of mine) when asked what she was going to do...
Aug 5th
All Things Unsaid — Susanne Simonson
Aug 4th

Triangles -- Basic Molecule of Human...

One of the nine marks of Bowen Theory is the Triangle. This refers to three parts of an emotional...
Aug 4th
Dr. Murray Bowen (1913 -1990) A native of Waverly, Tennessee...
Aug 4th
Murray Bowen -- Family Systems Theory
Aug 4th
“Don’t just do something stand there!”
— Murray Bowen
Aug 4th
COWGIRL — Tom Chambers
Aug 3rd
Centering Prayer -- Unharried Prayer
Aug 3rd

SABBATH MOOD -- SABBATH RHYTHM

In her book, The Noah Paradox: Time as Burden, Time as Blessing, Carol Ochs parses the creation...
Aug 3rd
Yoraam Raaman (And The Lord Rested) Day VII: Shabatt
Aug 3rd
“The heaven and the earth were finished, and all their array....”
— Genesis 2:1-3
Aug 3rd
Waiting the Miracle
Aug 3rd
“Whatever is foreseen in joy Must be lived out from day to...”
— Wendell Berry A Timbered...
Aug 3rd
Beauty Is Relative — True Bararian
Aug 2nd
“We live in a laboratory of faith and we don’t have to...”
— The late Father David...
Aug 2nd
Ramiro at the dentist — Sarah Small
Aug 2nd
Darek Siakowski
Aug 2nd
Hooded Scowl — Mari Kitaoka
Aug 2nd
Corner Gal — Mari Kitaoka
Aug 2nd
“God acts on us inescapably through the people who touch and...”
— Christopher Bryant Member of...
Aug 2nd

Amphibian Laboratory

Morris West points out an obvious wonderfully dreadful truth that humans walk in two worlds. We are...
Aug 2nd
Cave Paintings — Lascaux, France 15,000-10,000 BC
Aug 2nd
“Once You accept the existence of God — however you...”
— Morris West (1916-1999) ...
Aug 2nd
Romanian Ballad -- Ciprian Porumbescu
Aug 2nd
“There is a necessity of getting out of movements —...”
— Wendell Berry
Aug 1st
“The Christian Missionary may preach the gospel to the poor...”
— Carl Jung 1875-1965
Aug 1st
The Misunderstood Christ — Victor Safonkin
Aug 1st

PRAY WITHOUT CEASING

Wendell Berry the Kentucky farmer poet writes a radical truth: most movements simply move in...
Aug 1st
Joachim Lehner
Aug 1st
Wendell Berry
Aug 1st