Infographics and wordmapping have caught my eye lately. So when I found Inkscape, I decided to start fiddling around with it. Here's a first attempt at beginning to think visually about things running around in my head. The biggest objection will probably be the "I" being in the middle, but I put it …
Listening and the Hunger for Great Conversation
I love conversation. The exchange of experiences and ideas borders on the miraculous when you consider how specific our lives are to ourselves. How to explain this thing going on inside my head? This dance of images and ideas, memories and dreams, each of them presenting themselves for my further consideration constantly, falling into …
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Thriving: A Good Hub of a Word
Themes for the New Year abound. Commitment, focus, discipline, simplicity, gratitude, service...there are many ways to frame a reorientation of living. Here's the one I've settled on as a hub for the work of my various writing platforms. Thrive. Funny word, thrive. Makes me think of "hive." Which leads me to images of buzzing …
How to Stay Astonished in Five Simple Steps
How's the old Kathy Mattea song go? "Standing knee deep in a river, and dying of thirst." My wife puts up with me, but it has to be annoying. "Isn't it funny that we ingest food," I say. Or, "It's so strange that we have these orbs in the front of our heads …
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You as Parable
If folks a thousand years from now preach sermons on your life, what would they walk away with... Those are the opening lyrics to a song I wrote several years ago. My reading yesterday in IMAGE journal reminded me of it by way of an interview with Walter Brueggemann, professor emeritus of Old Testament studies …
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