There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person. - G.K. Chesterton
I recently overheard someone make a comment that essentially accused anyone who thinks money spent on a movie would be better saved, and who then turns around themselves and buys a book, is a hypocrite.
In order to be a hypocrite, the thing claimed (that movie money is better saved) and the action (the [...]
It’s good to give others the dignity of refusing an offer, even if you know they will.
Alisa had mentioned in her post, Living Simply, that we were talking about simplifying our lives the other night at church. She makes a good point, that the simplification of our lives is, itself, not that simple. The process seems a battle with the hydra…we chop off one head and five others [...]
.. in much wisdom there is much grief, and increasing knowledge results in increasing pain.
Ecc. 1:18
The message of your Holy Scriptures has set my heart throbbing, O Lord, and with the meager powers that are mine in this life I struggle hard to understand it. The poverty of our human intellect generally produces an abundance of words, for more talk is spent in search than in discovery. It [...]
Last night was my high school alma mater’s yearly football game with their rival across town. Every other year or so, me and a friend of mine will walk over and watch the game since he lives across the street from the stadium. Of course, each year we sit further and further [...]
Last night Sarah and I went to see North by Northwest at the Carolina Theater downtown (they show old movies once a month.) I’d never seen the movie all the way through, though I’ve seen the ending several times. I was familiar with Cary Grant being chased by the plane, but [...]
Yesterday I began working on a new 12-page comic story. After spending hours finishing up the first page I stepped back and thought, “This doesn’t look like I wanted it to.”
In fact, nothing ever looks like I really want it to. My theory is that I want to create something that impacts [...]
Working in a coffee shop is a curious experience. It’s an environment where the monotony of routine dulls what in other arenas would be a fascinating study in human nature. From the working side of the counter, the coffee shop reveals the character of a patron in an instant. Does this [...]
I believe I have settled on a theme. Changing a wordpress theme will teach you humility, and tax your powers of observation as you try and figure out why certain lines of code aren’t doing what they should be doing.
I think I’ve figured out where I’m heading with this thing as far as direction [...]
I am debating on this new theme for the blog as I debate my focus. Some things I can’t figure out at first glance of the php code, maybe someone can point me in right direction.
How to link the archive and contact tabs to, well, archives and content
How to take away the space and [...]
I’m re-thinking the focus of this blog. I’ve never reallly given much thought to what I’m doing here, and I feel like this is a hodgepodge of tangents. Is this a journal of my day to day life? Is it a place where I work out my worldview and try to refine [...]
We sat all lined sideways in pews
Two churches with two different views
As time slipped away
My mind went astray
And instead I sat there and drew
Well, October is upon us. Various Halloween shops have been popping up in previously-vacant spaces, which makes me wonder if they’ve been saving up all year to pay for the two month lease. September seems to have been the end of summer rather than the gateway to fall, and the leaves have been [...]