[spirit if the times]

Given their theological bent, Christians have often operated on the premise that the only truth that matters is abstract or philosophical truth. They have assumed that a person's worldview, including their own, consists only of ideas. This is a dangerous fallacy...
We are influenced by images at least as much as ideas. We may assent to the proposition that the true end of life is not to make money & accumulate possessions, but if our minds are filled with images of big houses & fancy clothes, our actual behavior will run in the direction of materialism.

leland ryken

[hang me up to dry]

{sammy}

{tip of my tongue}

good evening.
it has been a good day.

job no. 2 had no power & was slightly flooded due to ceiling leakage so rob & beetle cooked us eggs & bacon by flashlight...we sat around in the restaurant lobby for an hour by the fire & then went home, ice skating through the parking lot.

i've finally finished danny meyer's setting the table - the transformative power of hospitality in business.
it would be pretty easy to accomplish what he recommends.
visiting his restaurant tabla is on my list for new york in the fall. among many other things.

after work & floyd errands (i got to see my bakery peeps!) i downloaded some new music.
please go & buy the civil wars ep poison & wine. it's 3.96 on itunes, & it's brilliant.
only 4 songs so i've listened to them probably 5 times over wishing there were more.

well. i think i shall have a beer & watch the wilson episode of house.
goodnight.

apparitions

i'm feeling artistically unfulfilled lately. perhaps because i want to have my cake & eat it too.
i look at the pictures i've taken & the scribbles i've drawn & the books i've read & the music i've listened to & the food i've made & the projects i've worked on & maybe i've spread my passion too thinly...

{jeeniuseq}

[pictures from the little fujica.]

christmas shopping today.
walmart scares me.

{the tip of the iceberg}

I said grace cannot prevail until law is dead, until moralizing is out of the game. The precise phrase should be, until our fatal love affair with the law is over - until, finally & for good, our lifelong certainty that someone is keeping score has run out of steam & collapsed. As long as we leave, in our dramatizations of grace, one single hope of a moral reckoning, one possible recourse to salvation by bookkeeping, our freedom-dreading hearts will clutch it to themselves. And even if we leave none at all, we will grub for ethics that are not there rather than face the liberty to which grace calls us.

Robert Farrar Capon











images: google