Archive for August 4th, 2006
Finally got me a MAC!
Friday, August 4th, 2006MacBook Pro 15″ Blogging tonight from it in fact! Now I can officially retire my Dell Inspiron to the bottom of the Hudson River. Or, as a friend suggested, conduct a ritual burning of some kind. Either way, what a relief to have a reliable computer again. Much love to the donors who made it [...]
Biblical Compassion: Suffering Together
Friday, August 4th, 2006… if we open up those Bibles the meaning of “compassion” becomes clear; after all, Hebrew and Greek words commonly translated as “compassion” are used over eighty times in the Bible. Their most frequent use is not as an isolated noun but as the culmination of a process. Repeatedly, in Judges and other books, the [...]
Big Pun
Friday, August 4th, 2006Courtesy of Matt’s mom: “Mahatma Gandhi, as you know, walked barefoot most of the time, which produced an impressive set of calluses on his feet. He also ate very little, which made him rather frail and with his odd diet, he suffered from bad breath. This made him… (Oh, man, this is so bad, it’s [...]
I miss Judah
Friday, August 4th, 2006With me in Baltimore with the Stevens clan and Judah in Massachusetts with the cousins, I’m suffering withdrawal. Here’s JJ with Jacob Stevens a couple of weeks ago on a New York subway.