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Monthly Archives: June 2021
A Kind of Summer Ending
It’s June 30th, which means I’m unofficially bringing a certain phase of “summer vacation” to an end. June has been good: a quality trip home, a few weeks to (re)establish some daily and weekly rhythm and routines, good sleep and … Continue reading
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Short Season of Sequels
I finished Andy Weir’s Project Hail Mary a few days ago. It’s the kind of novel that almost demands a sequel (or at least a second novel that dovetails with missing but intriguing plot points). Sequels are always a little … Continue reading
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What We Might Have Given
Yesterday I wrote a bit about the “work” that I had set up for myself this summer using some thoughts from an Ephraim Radner article from March 2020. At almost the same time, the folks at First Things also posted … Continue reading
The Work of (This) Summer
After a good trip back home to Tennessee to see family and friends, I’m back in Honolulu adjusting to mostly-free days and evenings. For many years, summer vacation was difficult for me (and summer school almost a necessity) because of … Continue reading
Continuing Cultivation
From James K. A. Smith’s recent newsletter over at Image: In May and June, my hands are dirty and I spend a lot of time thinking about sanctification. After the danger of Michigan frost is past, usually after Mother’s Day, … Continue reading
Sunday’s Best: Spacial Intelligence
Turns out there’s intelligence on both sides of the console, Caulfield and Frazz . . . Today’s outer-space Frazz reminds me of my current fiction read: Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir. I was lucky to read Weir’s first book, … Continue reading
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Questionable Collaboration
Like it or not, collaboration has become a mainstay in most workplaces and ministries. In many ways, this is a good thing. But then something like this happens: Points to Snoopy, who reminds us about the connection between the medium … Continue reading
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What We Hear before We See
I’m about halfway through Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows. I’ve spent most of my life with a vague sense of the story. The title has been popping up here and there these last few years, including a recent … Continue reading
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Start of Summer Words
Thanks to extra concurrent-learning prep during fall break 2020, the summer vacation has started earlier for me and my co-workers. Our last official day of work was this past Friday, and that was mostly meetings and planning for said meetings. … Continue reading
Space Enough, and Time 