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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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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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★ Seth Godin on Why Tribes Will Change the World
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Continue reading →: ★ Seth Godin on Why Tribes Will Change the WorldSeth 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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Continue reading →: ★ Final Course Reading List
Here 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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Things I do: Engineering leadership; Grad Instructor in spirituality, creativity, digital personhood, pilgrimage.
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