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Continue reading →: ★ links for 2009-05-14
Magnum Blog / Detroit: The Troubled City – the photo blog of Magnum Photos Magnum photographer Bruce Gilden documents the destruction of Detroit with world-class photography. He writes: My work on foreclosed homes in Detroit has actually been a continuation of a project that started in Fort Myers, Florida in…
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Continue reading →: ★ Dan Savage, Catholicism, Grief and This American Life
Today, while walking to burn off some guacamole, I listened to the May 1 episode of the always-excellent This American Life radio show/podcast. This American Life is a national treasure. For those that haven’t yet experienced it: each week, the show chooses a particular theme, then presents stories around that…
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Categories: Uncategorized
★ To Pause at the Threshold (Part 1)
Continue reading →: ★ To Pause at the Threshold (Part 1)“To Pause at the Threshold: Reflections on Living on the Border” (Esther De Waal) Esther de Waal is one of those writers that I deeply respect. She writes mostly about Benedictine spirituality, but also deeply about Celtic spirituality. She approaches monastic spirituality from the perspective of a layperson, incorporating different…
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Continue reading →: ★ Seth Godin on Why Tribes Will Change the World
Seth Godin argues the Internet has ended mass marketing and revived a human social unit from the distant past: tribes. Founded on shared ideas and values, tribes give ordinary people the power to lead and make big change. He urges us to do so.
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Continue reading →: ★ Thoughts on Community with Jean Vanier, Part 3
The mission of the Christian community is expressed in general and specific ways, according to Vanier. Each community has a general mission, to express the life of God amongst its members. And each community has a specific mission, “its specific way of giving life through its particular goals” (p. 88).…
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Continue reading →: ★ links for 2009-05-13
The Portrait Photographer: Five Keys to Great Outdoor and Location Sessions (tags: photography portrait) Microsoft is the New GM | TechFold "There are two differences between Microsoft and GM: Microsoft doesn’t have GM’s debt issues, and MS isn’t labouring under onerous union contracts. Otherwise, the two are eerily similar: both…
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Continue reading →: ★ links for 2009-05-12
How to make Mail.app and GMail play nicer using IMAP, and GMail demystified « Blog Title of Blog Type it here (tags: mac gmail apple imap)
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Continue reading →: ★ Growing Burt’s garden – Snoqualmie Valley Record
The below article on Burt Mann of North Bend captures a real local character. He’s a GREAT guy, very lively, wonderful heart, very feisty. Burt walks miles each day; he told us that when his wife passed away years ago, he decided to walk and think, and he hasn’t really…
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Categories: Grad School
★ Final Course Reading List
Continue reading →: ★ Final Course Reading ListHere are the books that I’m reading for the final course in my D. MIn program at Bakke Graduate University. The course title is “Rhythms of Living – Exploring Christian Spiritual Practices in Shaping Hearts of Compassion”; it’s a course in spiritual formation and spiritual practices. Here’s the course…
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Continue reading →: ★ links for 2009-05-06
North Bend proposes trail, parks expansion – Snoqualmie Valley Record The Company of Jesus – A Third Order Franciscan and Benedictine Community (tags: benedictine franciscan missionalorder thirdorder)
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I’m Pat
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Things I do: Engineering leadership; Grad Instructor in spirituality, creativity, digital personhood, pilgrimage.
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