Human beings know how to sneer. We know what we like and we also learn pretty quickly how to belittle the things that we don’t. We may not all do it all the time, but we KNOW how to do it. In the same way we gather together with like-minded people around the things we […]
Continue reading →I have been searching for a table saw for almost two months now, and I finally got one this weekend. I’m very happy. It now sits in the bowels of my house, in the midst of the clutter and I dearly hope that it will be less than two months before I get it running. […]
Continue reading →One of the things that I like to do on the side is lead worship every once in a while at my church. If you’re not in the midst of church culture, that concept of leading worship may be something that is new to you. I get so used to talking about this thing called […]
Continue reading →I thought I would spend more time talking about pornography on this blog. It was sort of the central idea behind it – it’s in the title after all. But I find that I’m just not thinking about it that much right now (which is good – I’m not supposed to be thinking about porn […]
Continue reading →It rained all day on Saturday here. It’s January 11th today and it really ought to be the kind of weather for skating and tobogganing but instead it was raining and about six degrees above freezing. I was excited. The rain was taking care of all the ice and snow that was left on the […]
Continue reading →I’m feeling quite good this week all things considered. I was certainly dreading the return to work and after three days, it’s gone quite well. I’m glad of that and I’m working hard to figure out how I can maintain a better level of balance because I don’t have a great history of being well-balanced. […]
Continue reading →I was able to ride my bike this year well into December. On Christmas Eve I biked to work in a sweatshirt. It was wonderful. I know that shifting weather patterns and unusual seasonal swings are reason for concern, but I have to confess that when they work in my favour, I really enjoy them. […]
Continue reading →I ended my last post with a thought that perhaps, if I feel like I am in the dark, I could start dancing (literally or figuratively). I think that there’s certainly something to that. To dance is not always an expression of joy. It is certainly possible to dance despite a lack of joy. It is […]
Continue reading →I went to a dance at my daughters’ school the other night. My daughters are 4 and 10 so the dances at their school are family dances. We all went together. That’s new to me. My schools didn’t have dances until junior high, and at that point I certainly didn’t want to be attending with […]
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