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A Tale of Time
I’m about 30 pages into Chuck Klosterman’s The Nineties. Klosterman is one of my favorite non-fiction writers, especially when it comes to American pop culture. The book looks to be a 300-page dissection of what it was like to live … Continue reading
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Tagged Chuck Klosterman, Dave Eggers, Douglas Coupland
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Self-Knowledge and Systems
Self-knowledge is almost meaningless if a system is indifferent and unresponsive. That’s one of my big take-aways from the last couple of years. Self-knowledge is a good thing. Not everything, mind you. But it’s something. Observation of what makes you … Continue reading
Posted in Notes for a World's End, The Long Story
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Traction and Distraction
If you can’t already tell, I’m trying to use this two-week “break” to find my way back to posting here regularly. This last quarter has been a lot busier than I had anticipated. And while I’ve mostly been able to … 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
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
Last Words, First Words
Sunday was our current pastor’s last Sunday at our church. It’s been interesting, watching someone of that position leave, watching them transition from one place of living to another. Sunday was also the day of his last sermon, an exposition … Continue reading
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Question to Questions
I ended yesterday’s post with a question: what’s a leader for? It’s more of a thought-question, really, as I think that leaders are important, vital. At the same time, how things play out when leaders aren’t around can be quite … Continue reading
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Twice Bitten, Thrice Shy?
Two years ago, I was serving on two search committees. One was for our high school’s Christian Ministries coordinator, a position that had been vacant for two years and that I had helped step in to partly fill. The other … Continue reading
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And then WHAM!
A few words on the continuing story of the week. I received my second Moderna dose Monday at 9:50 AM. I was fine for the rest of the day, all the way to going to bed. I had a hard … Continue reading
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Space Enough, and Time 