where to begin a love affair with trees
you’re passionate about designing and building things. that’s a great start. but you don’t have a workshop. or you’ve got a workshop and it’s full of things you don’t use and you’re ready to start again. here’s what the temptation looks like. you go on craigslist and facebook marketplace and start browsing for good deals. then you buy them and bring them home and you gradually build a collection of…
passion
i rise with the dawn and shift the stones away from my eyes revealing the brightness of a life i thought just moments ago stolen by their night i look down and touch the holes driven through my spirit by the nails of hatred and passion not healed or forgotten but no longer in focus i stand as an infant lamb crawling from its manger at first light shaky on…
jesus’ prayers
in honor of the easter celebrations sweeping the world this weekend, here are five new translations of jesus’ prayer, often oddly called “the lord’s prayer”, from the christian bible, the book of matthew. if you have found the traditional version of this prayer rather awkward — which most traditional liturgy tends to be for a bunch of reasons — these might connect more with your modern spirit. 1 you who…
a timeline of responsibility
much of the modern internet was created by a simple piece of legislation – the american “communications decency act”, specifically section 230 where it says “no provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider”. if you’re not a lawyer (which i’m certainly not), this has a very simple meaning. facebook, instagram, twitter and…
