Looking at the roots of things to see where they lead
Two recommendations I came across at Hacker News. Last year a few of my favorite films were Kiki's Delivery Service and My Neighbor Totoro . These are apparently great documentaries on Hayao Miyazaki himself. I'm unclear yet on where to watch them, but didn't want to forget about the recommendations: The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness 10 Years with Hayao Miyazaki
I've been dealing with what I think is a minor plantar fasciitis issue for the last few months. I actually think it's been going on for longer than that, as I had these issues back when I raced the Dino Valley 25K a couple years ago. I just ignored it then, dealt with the morning pain until training was over and then it faded. Back in May, however, I was ramping up mileage and noticed the morning…
I'm looking for ways of talking about this year without saying my immediate feelings about it. My inclination is to say the year was shitty. Beyond shitty . But that's a sort of surface layer feeling disguising something deeper. To be sure, there is a top layer of muck and grime that covered so much of how this year went. In last year's post , I gave some vague description about last Christmas…
But what if Christianity is not water? What if, instead, we understand the Christian era as a clearing in a forest? The forest is paganism: dark, wild, vigorous, and menacing, but also magical in its way. For two thousand years, Christians pushed the forest back, with burning and hacking, but also with pruning and cultivating, creating a garden in the clearing with a view upward to heaven. -Louis…
Way back in those Covid times (2019-2021) I started working for a faith community & cultural center called Life in Deep Ellum. The long, long, long story short is while I was on staff there the whole thing imploded. I'm still friends with the former co-pastor, who was in his early forties at the time. His spouse (and the other co-pastor) was a little younger, I believe in her late thirties. I…