Diary

Thrown as if Fierce & Wild by Dean Young

You don’t have a clue, says the power drill to the canoe hanging from the rafters. Is life a contest everything plays by different rules for different prizes? You’re really worthless, aren’t you? barks the cherry tree covered with eponymous fruit to the wagon lying on its side. Unfair! Wasn’t that wagon not two days…

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Sap That Feeds The Tree of Heaven

If you have seen the film Avtar, you should remember a scene about halfway through the movie where the hero Jake Sully makes his first “clean kill” on his way to becoming a Na’Vi hunter. After killing the beast, Sully whispers a blessing to the dead animal which immediately reminded me of this this beautiful…

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The Uncertainty Principle

“The Uncertainty Principle. It proves we can’t ever really know… what’s going on. So it shouldn’t bother you. Not being able to figure anything out. Although you will be responsible for this on the mid-term.” ~Larry Gopnik, from the film A Serious Man

Graphic Design Activism

“Advertising’s goal, of course, is to make you want something. To create desire. That begins by making you unhappy with what you currently have, or don’t have. Advertising widens the gap between what you have and what you want. Wanting to buy something, then, is a response to feelings of dissatisfaction, envy and craving. A…

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2009 and feelin’ fine

I’ve only been blogging since August of 2009 (what’s that, like five months?), but I felt left out because all of the blogs I read are posting their 2009 top ten lists. So, like my friend Dan, I thought I would post my top five favorite posts of 2009. Enjoy! #5) What is a Friend:…

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The Martyr’s Body

I’m still reading The Purple Crown: The Politics of Martyrdom by Tripp York. I’m slowly reading through chapter 2, Body: The Field of Combat. In this chapter York attempts to “examine how the early church attempted to reconfigure the body to better perform its doxological role. York says that the “the shaping of the body…

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