Archive for June, 2010

Where The World Is In Pain

Tuesday, June 29th, 2010

I am finishing N.T. Wright’s The Challenge of Jesus, which is an excellent and accessible book wherein Wright, doing the work of an historian, renders a provocative portrait of Jesus that is at once familiar and unfamiliar. The Jesus that Wright portrays is one who is firmly rooted in, and responsive to, the conditions of […]

At A Swim Meet

Saturday, June 19th, 2010

It was 4:15 pm, and I had napped for about a half hour longer than I planned, and had about 15 minutes to get Joel ready, the appropriate stuff together, and google the directions  for a swim meet in Dinuba, which was about 45 minutes south towards the foothills of the Sierra Nevadas. All day […]

My Two Feet

Friday, June 11th, 2010

I bought a new cell phone recently, which has a 3.2 megapixel camera, which in my mind is a kind of precursor to a DSLR camera that I hope to get in the near future. Yes, photography is on my mind. When I was a lad, I used to go on photo jaunts with my […]