I'm changing the name of this site...tune in for stories from the siren's eye.
8 years ago
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Friday, October 24, 2008
Laughing Time
The Light Hearted Break of the Day.
Watch Bert Rock The Beat
And Ernie Blaze the Horns.
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
or 28 days at a time...
my friends. (i sound like John McCain...and the thought of hearing that for four years is just about enough for me not to vote for him...) i use that phrase an awful lot and I hope it never comes across without endearment...because you truly are my friends and I truly am thinking of you.
i've been all about updating this blog and telling you all of the things that have been happening during my unemployment malarkey. however, i remain busy and thoughtless about my little internet spill canvas. but the days, they have been glory. i've been looking for autumn lately, and you'd be a fool not to be yourself. i got to enjoy some time a a local orchard with friends on friday evening, walking the tree lines, watching the sun go down, picking apples and sharing together. not a bad picture. and with apples, come things like apple crisp, apple pie, apple cookies, apple salad and apple butter, all of which have been gracing my table for a few weeks now. the leaves around my neighborhood are peaking...bright reds and yellows, oranges and bright greens...but mostly this year i've been taken by the dull orangeish brown hues of the big oak trees at newell park. it's as if their color is stuck and preserved in some beautiful quilt or something that your grandmother would make on the second floor of a dusty old farm house in a rocking chair staring at the sunset (how's that for a simile). but i've begun to really be seeing those pale hues, the bright browns and tans, the dull orange and purpley reds. my how color sets the moods of the seasons.
on to more important things...the contents of my unemployment. yipee! last week i interviewed with the Minnesota Conservation Corps for a job working with students in St. Paul who sign up to do service projects around the city and learn about conservation in a 'family-type' setting. it is a fabulous sounding job and i hope to hear back from them sometime this week. other than that, i have applications out to st. paul public schools to be a teacher's assistant, i've applied at a few local restaurants and i'm beginning to consider starbucks as a sort of last resort option for the time being. more on these later...soon this blog will change it's name, i know it...and if you don't know it, pray for it. thank you.
i felt something big when i clicked on the shiny new post button on the computer screen...in all reality, i've been feeling something big for a few weeks now. as i sit and read, search the world for jobs, think about my self and my 'qualifications', watch the financial systems of the greatest force for good in the world fall apart, hear women talk politics on the view with my wife and many other things...i've been constantly thinking about life...what's important, what's not...what i take for granted. and though times have been pretty awfully frustrating, i've been able to gain some perspective. i hope.
one of the most important things i continue to learn is the importance of staying connected with people...i've known a lot of people in my 25 years...some i've left a good impression on, and others i sure wish i could go back and change a few things. but that to the side, people are so important. for me, they're the basis of this strange word church. i've been wrestling with frank viola's book 'pagan christianity', and i recommend it to just about anyone. i've gone through his chapters on everything from the church building, the pastor, paying clergy and the tithe, baptism and communion and even the worship service order or praise team. it's a remarkable book with a lot of truth that centers on the fact that the people you know are your church...instead of the program-stuffed million dollar buildings that we think of when we hear 'church'. i keep agreeing with viola...i've never felt right about being paid as a 'minister' because i'm pretty sure if we would all just give this thing a little bit more we wouldn't need 'minister's who study and interpret and drive the flock, so to speak. it seems like church should be active, for all who want to be involved...but i'm straying from the point here. viola has a lot of good things to say about where church came from and what church should be...but i'm beginning to anticipate the end because i keep finding myself saying 'okay this is true...but what are we supposed to do instead'...just read the book, terribly interesting.
i've been spending a lot of extra time on photoshop, developing some photos that i've taken across the years and making a sort of portfolio from the past...at least the past 5 years or so. i'm doctoring up a few and letting the rest speak for themselves...you can see them here:
Ryan's getting better...
thanks for reading.
just pray, that's about all i can ask, or send money.
spinning: you are my sunshine by copeland
flipping: twinkie, deconstructed by Steve Ettlinger
i've been all about updating this blog and telling you all of the things that have been happening during my unemployment malarkey. however, i remain busy and thoughtless about my little internet spill canvas. but the days, they have been glory. i've been looking for autumn lately, and you'd be a fool not to be yourself. i got to enjoy some time a a local orchard with friends on friday evening, walking the tree lines, watching the sun go down, picking apples and sharing together. not a bad picture. and with apples, come things like apple crisp, apple pie, apple cookies, apple salad and apple butter, all of which have been gracing my table for a few weeks now. the leaves around my neighborhood are peaking...bright reds and yellows, oranges and bright greens...but mostly this year i've been taken by the dull orangeish brown hues of the big oak trees at newell park. it's as if their color is stuck and preserved in some beautiful quilt or something that your grandmother would make on the second floor of a dusty old farm house in a rocking chair staring at the sunset (how's that for a simile). but i've begun to really be seeing those pale hues, the bright browns and tans, the dull orange and purpley reds. my how color sets the moods of the seasons.
on to more important things...the contents of my unemployment. yipee! last week i interviewed with the Minnesota Conservation Corps for a job working with students in St. Paul who sign up to do service projects around the city and learn about conservation in a 'family-type' setting. it is a fabulous sounding job and i hope to hear back from them sometime this week. other than that, i have applications out to st. paul public schools to be a teacher's assistant, i've applied at a few local restaurants and i'm beginning to consider starbucks as a sort of last resort option for the time being. more on these later...soon this blog will change it's name, i know it...and if you don't know it, pray for it. thank you.
i felt something big when i clicked on the shiny new post button on the computer screen...in all reality, i've been feeling something big for a few weeks now. as i sit and read, search the world for jobs, think about my self and my 'qualifications', watch the financial systems of the greatest force for good in the world fall apart, hear women talk politics on the view with my wife and many other things...i've been constantly thinking about life...what's important, what's not...what i take for granted. and though times have been pretty awfully frustrating, i've been able to gain some perspective. i hope.
one of the most important things i continue to learn is the importance of staying connected with people...i've known a lot of people in my 25 years...some i've left a good impression on, and others i sure wish i could go back and change a few things. but that to the side, people are so important. for me, they're the basis of this strange word church. i've been wrestling with frank viola's book 'pagan christianity', and i recommend it to just about anyone. i've gone through his chapters on everything from the church building, the pastor, paying clergy and the tithe, baptism and communion and even the worship service order or praise team. it's a remarkable book with a lot of truth that centers on the fact that the people you know are your church...instead of the program-stuffed million dollar buildings that we think of when we hear 'church'. i keep agreeing with viola...i've never felt right about being paid as a 'minister' because i'm pretty sure if we would all just give this thing a little bit more we wouldn't need 'minister's who study and interpret and drive the flock, so to speak. it seems like church should be active, for all who want to be involved...but i'm straying from the point here. viola has a lot of good things to say about where church came from and what church should be...but i'm beginning to anticipate the end because i keep finding myself saying 'okay this is true...but what are we supposed to do instead'...just read the book, terribly interesting.
i've been spending a lot of extra time on photoshop, developing some photos that i've taken across the years and making a sort of portfolio from the past...at least the past 5 years or so. i'm doctoring up a few and letting the rest speak for themselves...you can see them here:
Ryan's getting better...
thanks for reading.
just pray, that's about all i can ask, or send money.
spinning: you are my sunshine by copeland
flipping: twinkie, deconstructed by Steve Ettlinger
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