CloudsVinesThe Door Here are some pics I took on my Olympus SLR. They have been touched up in Photoshop, but they are real pictures. The Door and Clouds were taken in downtown Clinton, TN. They are both along the same wall of an old brick building. Vines was taken in Jellico, TN. It is the [...]
Here is something I’ve been simmering for quite some time. It is still undercooked, but I aim to keep this blog fresh. Men love a real barbershop. It is one of the last public places where men can go and be men with other men. You can talk—or not. If you don’t feel like talking [...]
The following pics are from our parish website.I am the hefty guy in the grey polo. Anthony is in a white shirt and wearing a tie. Lainey, my wife is in a peach-colored dress. Of course the guy I’m holding is the Newly Baptized Paul Owen. Share on Facebook
And not one of those new fangled computer gamers, neither. When I play I want to hear some dice rolling. Well, I was going to write something about a book I’ve started, God’s Politics by Jim Wallis. Instead I’ve just burned an hour looking through the forums for a new game I want to play. [...]
In her book The Bounty Caroline Alexander exposes reveals the truth, as much as it can be, about the ill fated Bounty voyage. It turns out Leftenant Wm. Bligh was not such a bad captain after all. He was perhaps one of the best navigators in the Royal navy at the time. He was only [...]
Perhaps it’s something a Briggs-Meyers test could point out, but my mind seems to run in cycles. There are maybe 10-15 subjects that are very interesting to me and I seem to jump from one to another without any discernable pattern. When a subject is foremost in my mind, I learn as much as I [...]
One of the things I like surfing for is kewl Orthodox Pics. I particularly like pics of churches and monastic places and people. Churches:One of my favorites:Metropolitian HERMAN and Archbishop DMITRI at Vespers at the Cathedral of the Ascension. From the OCA website Something about this monastery intrigues me. It is Crna Reka Monastery in [...]
Paul Owen was baptized today. Given his age (almost 3), everything went great. He quickly became squirmy during the long prayers, but ultimately he got wet and oily and had his hair trimmed. Praise be to God. Lainey and Sophie were there of course. My mom was there. And Lainey’s parents stayed until we changed [...]
I just finished reading Ahab’s Wife by Sena Jeter Naslund. I am not going to write a review. I will say it is a great book. Naslund strikes a wonderful balance between philosophical reflection and action/narrative. It got me thinking about how an author brings their own biases to their characters. I don’t know, but [...]
We have all been attending church together for several months and Paul is going to be baptized on Sunday. WOOOOHOOOOO Lainey and I talked some more about what the Orthodox Church believes. It’s very frustrating to me because we are talking from entirely different paradigms. She said that one reason she didn’t mind Paul being [...]