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[hang me up to dry]

Sun, 20 Dec 2009 18:40:12 GMT

{sammy}

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:39:19 GMT

{tip of my tongue}

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 23:39:01 GMT

good evening.
it has been a good day.

job no. 2 had no power & was slightly flooded due to ceiling leakage so rob & beetle cooked us eggs & bacon by flashlight...we sat around in the restaurant lobby for an hour by the fire & then went home, ice skating through the parking lot.

i've finally finished danny meyer's setting the table - the transformative power of hospitality in business.
it would be pretty easy to accomplish what he recommends.
visiting his restaurant tabla is on my list for new york in the fall. among many other things.

after work & floyd errands (i got to see my bakery peeps!) i downloaded some new music.
please go & buy the civil wars ep poison & wine. it's 3.96 on itunes, & it's brilliant.
only 4 songs so i've listened to them probably 5 times over wishing there were more.

well. i think i shall have a beer & watch the wilson episode of house.
goodnight.

{that hits me like a sound}

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 20:55:02 GMT

today's theme, as usual, is light.

So, some of his disciples said to one another, "What is this that he says to us? 'A little while, & you will not see me,' & 'again a little while, & you will see me;' & 'because I am going to the Father?'"
So they were saying "What does he mean by 'a little while?' We do not know what he is talking about."
Jesus knew they wanted to ask him so he said to them, "Is this what you are asking yourselves - what I meant by saying 'A little while & you will not see me & again, a little while & you will see me?
Truly, truly - I say to you you will weep & lament but the world will rejoice.
You will be sorrowful but your sorrow will turn into joy. When a woman is giving birth she has sorrow for her hour has come, but when she has delivered the baby, she no longer remembers the anguish for joy that a human being has been born into the world.
So also you have sorrow now, but I will see you again & your hearts will rejoice & no one will take your joy from you. In that day you will ask nothing of me. Truly, truly I say to you - whatever you ask of the Father in my name He will give it to you.

{the tip of the iceberg}

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 03:03:39 GMT

...I said grace cannot prevail until law is dead, until moralizing is out of the game. The precise phrase should be, until our fatal love affair with the law is over - until, finally & for good, our lifelong certainty that someone is keeping score has run out of steam & collapsed. As long as we leave, in our dramatizations of grace, one single hope of a moral reckoning, one possible recourse to salvation by bookkeeping, our freedom-dreading hearts will clutch it to themselves. And even if we leave none at all, we will grub for ethics that are not there rather than face the liberty to which grace calls us.

Robert Farrar Capon

images: google

{another day in paradise...}

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 01:22:50 GMT

i love my job.
& the people there most of all.
for sure.

be happy. eat pie.

{between noon & three}

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 22:32:50 GMT

The Reformation was a time when men went blind, staggering drunk because they had discovered, in the dusty basement of late medievalism, a whole cellarful of fifteen-hundred-year-old, two-hundred proof grace - of bottle after bottle of pure distillate of Scripture, one sip of which would convince anyone that God saves us single-handedly. The word of the gospel - after all those centuries of trying to lift yourself into heaven by worrying about the perfection of your bootstraps - suddenly turned out to be a flat announcement that the saved were home before they started...Grace has to be drunk straight: no water, no ice, & certainly no ginger ale; neither goodness, nor badness, nor the flowers that bloom in the spring of super spirituality could be allowed to enter into the case.

Robert Capon

{twilight}

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:39:42 GMT

[misc.]

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 03:13:52 GMT

it's now the week of monday, oct. 26.

which means a new job & a possible va tech game.

exciting.

some travels pics. i miss these mountains.

[ghost town]

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 04:37:52 GMT

dangit.
i want to upload & fiddle with my pics but no card reader....

this trip has been good for me - a swift kick in the ass needed to jumpstart decision-making & transform prayer-based thought into action.

i realized today that i miss rainbow the most; it's the prettiest area of southern ca. we just don't have boulders & olive trees like this in va...not as much of a mediterranean element.

something i've been thinking about lately:
'Genuine worship has much to do with gratitude. When God describes the deepest problems of the human condition, he certainly says we have all sinned (Rom. 3:23). He also points out that we have forgotten to give thanks (Rom. 1:21).'

so. no new ca pics. or north carolina pics for that matter. which is actually fine...i haven't been as motivated photographically lately (it all goes into the cooking) so i'm certain there's a lack of artistic perspective.
these shall have to do.

mars volta...love them. top on my playlist at the mo (pic not mine, obviously).

also some phillip glass, the knife, crystal castles, rammstein, cat power, shiny toy guns, dandy warhols, billy idol, & dark captain light captain crept up & stolen my ears. how about you?

sky is wonderful.