Dean Martin

it's a small crowd you know
it's the friends, strangers, and family
breathing sense and non-sense it to your life
the people that know you the best and those that don't
the brilliantly bright moon and the texture of grass beneath your bare feet

its a hopeful world we hear
keeps the embers glowing
keeps our belief in god alive
though there are days I loss all belief
however for all practical reasons I may be an atheist

searching for the rhythm in everything
throwing the ceiling back and singing to the sky
I'm content here, though I'm passing through
the thoughts in my mind and a bit of happiness in my eyes
as we experience the miracle of here and humanity

I'm feeling better, less angry and less antisocial. I'm not sure why. I have theories, it's linked to conversations, hope, art, and arcade fire.

I have a lot of doubts about belief right now, this is not a cry for help, rather it's a request, that you be okay with that.

I've been toying around with the idea of graphic / web design, for a while now. I have a few apprehensions, but this mainly. As a graphic / web designer it is very likely that I'd end up doing at least some work in the advertising field. Here is where, I get nervous, when designing an ad I would be required to orchestrate manipulate a message in subtle ways in order to manufacture desire within it's viewers (I know this not always the case, but look the advertising you see everyday...I do not think you could disagree.)...and I am not ok with that.

I was recently listening to Speaking of Faith and Krista Tippett was talking to Ellen Davis, a Biblical scholar. This was an excellent cast, something that stuck with me (beside the need to read Wendell Berry) was this scripture.

Genesis 1:

21. God created the great sea monsters and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind; and God saw that it was good.
22. God blessed them, saying, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth."

26. Then God said, "Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth."
27. God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.
28. God blessed them; and God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth."

Now Ellen Davis pointed out something that I had never noticed before. In verse 22 God gives the animals a blessing and a command, "be fruitful". It was the exact same blessing and "be fruitful" command that we received in verse 28. She suggested that this overlooked detail, should influence the way we read and understand the later part of verse 28, "rule over the..."

I'm not saying obviously that animals are our equals. The essence of this that intrigued me was that the animals were given a almost the same blessing we were before we were even created. Seeing this detail gives me a renewed respect, responsibility and appreciation for this creation that I'm a part of.

Keeping in the theme of the last blog post. I found an interesting dialog happening. I'll say one thing, I agree with Joe Wilcox, blogging without comments is very freeing.

What this website is.

This website is a "personal log" of me. Think like, aircraft logbook, where the pilot records the happenings of the plane's journey. That is basically what I would like this website to be, a place where I record the happenings, thoughts, and what not of me and my journey (wow the last part sounded super cliche, sorry).

If this site is more or less a logbook, why publicize it? I do not what to sound narcissistic, but I think a few people that know me read it. I also it is my hope that my rambling are worth reading. So yea, that is reason enough for me, I guess.

Other Motivating Factors.

Spam. Even with akismet.com, it's just ignoring. Oh and the bliss of simplicity.

I want to hear you.

Yes, of course I love your feedback, it makes me feel special. Since this is a personal website, I am willing to bet that the majority of small readership, follows my facebook links, so for feedback, simply comment on the post's facebook link. If you can't connect with me through social media, there is always email or whatever.

Real short book review:

I liked this book, although there was not really any "ah ha" moments, I found myself nodding emphatically the entire way through. I suppose if I was more conservative, I would have found the biblical support for "creation care" a bit more startling. Sorry I digress. What I value most is this book's practicality. The author and his family practices the life style that he writes about. He seems to often to write out of personal experience and always has many practical ideas of what "action" looks like.

This spring I attempted to plant things, loosely using the "square foot garden" method. I owe much to jared, for building the boxes and giving me fill and compost, and eldon for letting me try this on his property. So far the project is going pretty brilliantly, aside from my carrots not coming up and something seems to be eating my pea plants. Plot One - The empty square is where my carrots should have been. Plot Two - I am sort of concerned that this plot might be a little crowded, but nothing has died yet. Plot Three - This plot mainly produces loads of radishes right now.

My only fear is that I may be becoming domesticated. ha ha.

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