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“Is it, and if so, what makes the doing of photography a sacred or religious practice for you?” The answer is, of course, an unqualified YES! 🙂 via Photography as a Sacred Practice | Abbey of the Arts.

Interested in getting your kids interested in playing music?  Here’s a great site and link. So you moms and dads, aunts and uncles, and grandparents reading this, relax. Let the kids come to the music when it is fun for them to do so. Make it available, but don’t push.…

Mastermind Behind Clapton’s “Layla” This is a great little video of the making of Eric Clapton’s classic song “Layla” with the producer, who’s a total genius.

RECESSIONS, SEATTLE has long believed, were phenomena that happened to other, less fortunate, less blessed and, frankly, less gifted parts of the world. To hold that belief required some suspension of historical awareness, given that the region has had its own brushes with economic distress, most recently in the earlier…

Zillow made a recent analysis of Seattle area home prices.  They report an increasing percentage of homes sold at a loss (approaching 30%) as well as a chart showing the percentage of recent buyers with negative equity (over 50% of 2007 buyers). via Zillow: Seattle Home Sellers Take Increasing Losses…

Google’s open domain book announcement was parried by Amazon’s announcment that they’re working to make Kindle books available on phones as well.  This is the first move beyond the Kindle Reader device for Amazon. Amazon said that it was working on making the titles for its popular e-book reader, the…

Google has made all 1.5 million public domain books it has, available for phones for free via Google Book Search Mobile. It should work on all iPhones and all Android Phones. Note that these books were already available for free via Google Book Search as images of the book pages.…

Bakke Graduate University DMin degree We’ve got a new promo video for the BGU Doctor of Ministry. I’m having a great time in my D. Min!

My kindergarten-er daughter Kaileigh was on one of the few buses which were delayed yesterday by a lockdown at two schools in North Bend.  The news report below says it was only one bus, but everything else seems accurate.  Kaileigh’s bus was some 20 minutes late to drop her off…