Today is the 3rd annual Blog Action Day, with a focus on the need to take action on Climate Change. Last year’s topic was poverty, which I participated in. A day such as this fills me with an odd combination of excitement and ambivalence. I love the idea of engaging millions on a vital subject […]
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“This place is holding me back,” I hear him say. Or: “I need a fresh start – I have too much history here,” she mutters. So begins the now-common ritual of transplanting our much-too-mobile bones from one place to another in the misplaced hope that what is wrong with our lives has to do with our geography […]
If you don’t do this right from 12 meters up, it will be breathtaking. Regardless, the photo is. (Be sure to click the photo for the much larger original.) This photo is taken from part 3 of The Big Picture’s 3-part year-end retrospective. For those who have not yet heard of it, The Big Picture mines […]
Chris Haw writes a fantastic piece over at The Other Journal called The Christian and the iPhone: A Primer for Black Friday. I can only describe reading the article this way: Haw looked inside my brain, made sense of the mess, and miraculously managed to make it coherent. Here’s the opening: I have managed thus far to […]
Big is bad, but small isn’t necessarily beautiful. It’s just that everywhere I look, I can’t see the end of what I’m seeing. Everything is too big and it should be smaller. Perhaps the easiest place to make this case is in national electoral politics, which we in Canada recently sleepwalked through (a blessed brevity compared […]
Three years of blogging are now behind me, which I suppose some would call an accomplishment. This blog hasn’t turned into a conversation hub, nor has it sputtered out and died like so many of my friends’ blogs have. Not having a “following” has been very liberating. There are people who read this thing—some even do […]
