well for those of you follow this blog, i’m obviously working through my fear of the internet by blogging more. but i am still working on developing some kind of rule of blogging for myself, that i may post at some point. until then, my posts will be quite shallow and more informative about life that is happening. for now that is about all i’m comfortable with at this point. with that said, this...
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Last week was a week that exemplified what we are here for.  By we I mean many things from a broad understanding of humanity to a narrower understanding for Marie and I.   We have felt for a long time that we are meant for hospitality and community.  For the first five years of our marriage we have lived by ourselves, only occasionally creating space for others in our home.  Living in apartment complexes doesn’t...
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Today marks the anniversery of the first atomic bomb ever dropped.   On this day 72 years ago the United States dropped the “Little Man” on Hiroshima, killing nearly 70,000 people instantly.   Though we are the only country to ever use a nuclear weapon, we seem to be good at trying to police other countries whom we think are in the process of moving on one.  Does anyone out there know if we ever officially...
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For about the past 8 months or so, I’ve had an increased fear of being on the internet, namely in terms of social networking sites and blogging. Recently I’ve been expanding that fear into services such as Amazon and Google. This video summarizes some of what I am talking about, so if you’ve got about 10 minutes go for it, and hopefully there can be some generative commenting based on the video and further...
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In the fall of the year 2000 life for me was very simple and quite honestly a lot of fun.  I was a brand new Resident Assistant at my college, which meant I was automatically among the spiritually elite, which is another story for another time.  I was also on a partial tennis scholarship and was quickly working my way up into the top three men on the team.  I was only a sophmore...
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one of things i like best about summer is the amount of bbq’s. last week marie and i finally bought our own grill which means we’ll get to host parties and dinners for the summer. we’ve got a big deck as well as a big house, so i’m really looking forward having a lot of friends and neighbors over to eat. marie and i also got to meet more of our new neighbors and...
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