June 2012
1 post
May 2012
4 posts
Party for everybody →
A group of six over-seventy-year-old grandmothers are in the final round of the Eurovision song contest. They sing in Udmert, wear red babushka dresses, take a pan of something that looks like cookies out of the oven near the end of their performance, and just in general make everybody happy. Toward the end of the song you can hear “Party for Everybody” in English, but the rest of the...
April 2012
2 posts
March 2012
1 post
February 2012
4 posts
“Baudelaire honored reveries of travel as a mark of those noble, questing souls...”
– p. 32, The Art of Travel by Alain de Botton (2002, Pantheon Books)
January 2012
1 post
December 2011
4 posts
“When distilled beverages are aged in wooden barrels, a portion of the liquid is...”
– University of British Columbia has a page on their website called Botany Photo of the Day. Today’s picture is of Baudoinia compniacensis (the second word sounds a bit like ‘cognac,’ and has the same derivation).
New names →
This happened back in October. It’s a happy story, but as with most victories, there’s a background of sadness and injustice that needed to be set right.
The story made me think of the place in Revelation where Jesus says he’s going to give a new name to everyone who is victorious: And I will give to each one a white stone, and on the stone will be engraved a new name that no...
November 2011
7 posts
October 2011
7 posts
Visiting the world →
Here’s a post about short-term missions. We know that they enlighten the people who go. The people at the other end are picking up ideas too. Pretty thought-provoking. (I found this on Rasmussens’ blog.)
September 2011
4 posts
Eggshells →
People have wondered why different birds have different kinds of eggs. A post from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology says that some are thinking that the colors and patterns of eggshells may affect the development of the chick inside by calibrating the quality of light that comes through the shell.
August 2011
5 posts
Miracles
George Will’s column in todays R-G is about New Jersey governor Chris Christie. Near the end of the piece he mentions that the governor visited an aide while she was in labor and told her to “put away your BlackBerry, you are in the middle of a miracle.” True, and the miracle continues throughout life; children are no less of a miracle when they’re two and ten and...
July 2011
2 posts
June 2011
2 posts
May 2011
5 posts
“we are all miracles wrapped up in chemicals”
– from the song Wonderful by Gary Go
April 2011
4 posts
