Shanna says I’m not allowed to make our blog a political blog, so I’ll try to make this my only one, but there’s a lot of time between now and November. I just want to take a moment to share about a third party I’ve recently discovered that I think is worth serious consideration for… Continue reading A Third Party Worth a Look
Jayber Crow – Wendell Berry
Jayber Crow is excellent and captivating. Don’t read if you live away from friends & family where you grew up, it will make you terribly homesick and long for a simple life in which people had sensible jobs that needed to get done. Sometimes fun, sometimes heart-wrenching story about the life of the Port William… Continue reading Jayber Crow – Wendell Berry
What Matters?: Economics for a Renewed Commonwealth – Wendell Berry
So Wendell probably wouldn’t approve of my reading of his books on Kindle, but what can you do? What Matters? is a decent collection of essays about stewardship of the earth, community, people, and so forth. I should have noted the better ones more carefully as I read but to the best of my recollection… Continue reading What Matters?: Economics for a Renewed Commonwealth – Wendell Berry
Prosperity: when your animals eat well
And he will give rain for the seed with which you sow the ground, and bread, the produce of the ground, which will be rich and plenteous. In that day your livestock will graze in large pastures, and the oxen and the donkeys that work the ground will eat seasoned fodder, which has been winnowed… Continue reading Prosperity: when your animals eat well
Psalm 68:32-35
O kingdoms of the earth, sing to God; sing praises to the Lord, to him who rides in the heavens, the ancient heavens; behold, he sends out his voice, his mighty voice. Ascribe power to God, whose majesty is over Israel, and whose power is in the skies. Awesome is God from his sanctuary; the… Continue reading Psalm 68:32-35
Nope, still Protestant, very Protestant
Since I live in an Orthodox country and have long found myself drawn to high churchy things I visited services here in English and after the service got to chat with some of the westerners who had become Orthodox. They were quite eager to share their conversion to Orthodoxy and recommended Ware’s The Orthodox Church . I was… Continue reading Nope, still Protestant, very Protestant
Mira’s First Birthday Celebration
We were traveling on Mira’s first birthday, and busy after we got back, but we decided that her first year of life was worth celebrating, even if it was a bit belated. They built a playground in front of our building early this spring, and our friends came out to celebrate with us (and watch… Continue reading Mira’s First Birthday Celebration
Review competition
Holy spices
Holy spices
Star Wars fan?
Love episodes 4, 5 & 6, but not what Lucas re-released them as? Good news, there’s a guy who has been remastering the blueray releases to have the theatrical content. Needless to say this was exciting as I have a copy that’s of poor quality theatrical and of good quality where somehow Han didn’t shoot… Continue reading Star Wars fan?
What (second) home looks like
Someone (not I) has created a beautiful video of our beautiful home-on-this-side-of-the-world. Enjoy!
Faithful in a little (Or, Thou shalt not covet they neighbor’s garden)
My home here is not really all that different than what you might see in America. We live in a decently-sized, two bedroom apartment. It’s actually quite nice. I don’t have a dryer or a car, but that just puts me on par with the majority of Europeans. (And I do have one little American… Continue reading Faithful in a little (Or, Thou shalt not covet they neighbor’s garden)
Sometimes I think we live the rough life, 7 tickets to an international rugby game for $9.33.
Vacuum cleaner vs Mira
It’s a dragon daddy! Why don’t you kill it?
Easy E-mail Encryption
For those seeking to work on their tin-foil hat I’d like to recommend an extremely easy way to keep cyber crooks, the [insert your government’s eSpy agency here], or Google from reading your emails. Simply go to mailvelope.com and follow the documentation to set up the Mailvelope plugin. The process basically involves creating your own… Continue reading Easy E-mail Encryption