On an outing with a new friend we listened to my “Jazz Meets Hymns” CD, which has improvisational Jazz adaptations of classical hymns, and also the 2nd Chapter of Acts soft-rock adaptations. I reflected that not all of my heritage was bad – but those hymns go back more than a hundred [...]
Archive for June, 2008
Heritage..
Posted in Uncategorized on June 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
images…
Posted in Uncategorized on June 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Better images of myself:
Here:
and also here:
Hull number WAGB-281…
Posted in More About Me on June 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Part of my distant past… Arctic East Survey ‘79
We called her “the big red pig” – she was painted red for visibility in the ice fields.
another reposting..
Posted in More About Me, Relationship Musings on June 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
“Better by half” or “we are family”
April 19, 2007 by singlechristianman
So, I get a call last night from someone wanting to know if I am that Charles so and so who used to live in Michigan … it is from my youngest half brother, with whom I have had not had any contact for, perhaps, [...]
Ironclad relationship Rule #17
Posted in Relationship Musings on June 22, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I.AM.NOT.A.MINDREADER.
I understand that it is very “sweet” for a woman when a man does read her mind. But it is not his responsibility to do this.
To express in the terms familiar to Christians: He is not sinning by failing to read your mind. I also understand, I think, the need [...]
The eligible bachelor paradox
Posted in Relationship Musings on June 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
My agnostic friend Robert (no longer a fellow bachelor) sends me a great link about the “eligible bachelor paradox.”
A song…
Posted in Music that touches me on June 18, 2008 | 2 Comments »
This was one of two pieces of music at my first marriage, way back in ‘84. I post here not in remembrance, but in recognition of the fact that the words have come true in my life.
what I do believe…
Posted in More About Me on June 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This more or less captures it. I post it because I can no longer call myself an “Evangelical.”
I believe in one God,
the Father Almighty,
maker of heaven and earth
and of all things visible and invisible.
And in one Lord Jesus Christ,
the only-begotten Son of God,
begotten of His Father before all worlds,
God of God, Light of Light,
very [...]
Nepal
Posted in Adventuring on June 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
For some good and very explainable reasons, I didn’t do my Peru trip this Spring (hopefully, next year; though hopefully, also with some good company….).
However this year I will be going to Nepal. I wish to do a two day rafting trip, visit some Silk Road historical sites as part of an planned [...]
Ad baculum
Posted in Commentary, Uncategorized on June 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
An argument ad baculum — an argument of the “stick’ — is essentially one that goes “believe this (or agree with this) or we will hurt you.”
Reading Kathleen Parker’s Save the Males today, she points out that communist propoganda was effective not in that it communicated what kinds of thoughts were “safe” or that anyone [...]
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