Connective Visions

The collusion of slavering media and slaves to fear makes for the worst bedfellow.

There is no holiday from the headache of running into ignorance.

It’s a little like messages in bottles, or cards on balloons, granting a peek into a fellow human in a world that still has room for exploration.

It’s not just vacation – it’s getting out of the country.

Summer vacations can also be ventures away from habit – especially when it comes to the U.S. media and the discussions they generate.

Your own thoughts, emotional habits, and actions in the past have been the primary focus of creating your current experience in the world. And every time you react to another person or thing with a particular set of thoughts or emotions, you’re deepening a tendency to see a world based on those types of projections…. [...]

The Easter weekend in Norway is a national holiday, running from Thursday through Monday, over which time even supermarkets close. It came to an end yesterday evening, so the traffic warnings had hit the news headlines Sunday night. Adult citizens who don’t work the holiday weekend (for 100% of their usual wage in additional overtime) [...]

This may prove more of a testimony than a standard blog entry. Ah well. There is time. Thursday, I told a close friend in Norway that I was going to be one of seven preachers delivering sermons on the Seven Last Words of Christ from the cross in our church’s Good Friday service. His reaction [...]

Philadelphia has just completed a gorgeous, 70-degree F week (that’s in the 20s C, for all you civilized souls who use the metric system)* as the city entered springtime – and corresponding with the emergence of people from their homes were two blogs on happiness. The first is from my friend and fellow blogger at [...]