• breaking up
    November 22, 2011
    What I represent to her now is failed relationship, ample weight for sinking, and pacified potential, dragged...
  • true or false?
    November 21, 2011
    True or False: To truly understand it, You have to try it. True or False:...
  • plain and simple
    November 17, 2011
    No matter how hard I wish for plain simplicity, the world I live in...
  • For You
    November 11, 2011
    As a child, I listened to a lot of Christian music. I did not...
  • flying solo
    November 8, 2011
    In certain church subcultures, strength is derived from emphasis on marriages and family. That...
  • on CBC haters
    October 27, 2011
    So I get this random email criticising CBC for airing Katy Brand's Big Ass...
  • barmeno
    October 11, 2011
        I discovered this typeface today on the side of an "Adamson Lawn Care" trailer...
  • Ambrogio Lorenzetti
    September 30, 2011
    Corrie Kessler's mother has a print hanging in her house. It's Ambrogio Lorenzetti's Allegories of...
  • higher criticism
    September 29, 2011
    Does higher criticism proceed solely on the basis of anti-supernatural and rationalistic presuppositions? Or...
  • pure and elevated
    September 22, 2011
    I found this ambitious quote from A.W. Tozer: The heaviest obligation lying upon the Christian...
  • paradoxicreed
    September 7, 2011
    God Although God is an entirely human construct, humanity is also a divine construct: and...
  • divine worm?
    September 6, 2011
    If Jesus ever sang or read Psalm 22:6, did he mean it? If he really...
  • reflections at grundy lake
    September 3, 2011
    This is quite the place. Sandwiched between two lakes - each offering a unique...
  • the universe in my debt?
    September 1, 2011
    Giving comes back like a well sent boomerang. And tithing is unstoppable. But can I really...
  • Raindrops
    August 16, 2011
    6-year-old me didn't need to know the author's name, although the gold-coloured Newberry medal...
  • Swam
    July 20, 2011
    There's a particular kind of memento mori that leads one to peaceful acquiescence in...
  • Eden, Zion (Rev. 2)
    July 5, 2011
    The bit in brackets is not a scripture reference. "Rev. 2" is a designation...
  • The Velveteen Rowboat
    May 29, 2011
    These words herald a story told elsewhere. I'm telling it there because I thought...
  • Spuds
    March 11, 2011
    Is there life after shelf life? After shelf death, is there redemption? If dinner's not your destiny you grow...
  • Domestic Blues (1/6)
    February 19, 2011
    I love housework. I don't always do my chores on time, but when I...
  • Swords and Ploughshares
    January 14, 2011
    While for the generals Montcalm and Wolfe, "Québéc Citadel" might have connoted heavy artillery,...
  • Palimpsest
    November 17, 2010
    Whether or not I did my dishes well, the microsopic remnants of yesterday's fair may well...
  • Reflexshadow
    September 27, 2010
    Large Size When candle-light cavorts through wine's red iridescence and frolics on the clean white...
  • Asclepias Gyre
    September 7, 2010
    Large Size When I discovered (several weeks after having constructed this mound of milkweed and...
  • A Motivational Poster
    September 1, 2010
    Translated from the dutch, this phrase means "persevere, boy!" For me it carried particular weight...
  • Leman Tree
    August 11, 2010
    Stretch out your limbs to where the light is and you just might graze...
  • Reformed String Camp
    July 14, 2010
    On Sunday evening I attended a concert performance, put on by the Reformed String...
  • a Mandelbrot Maxim
    July 8, 2010
    It strikes me that Mandelbrot's maxim might just as easily apply in a moral...
  • Oster Itch
    May 6, 2010
    Large Size Yesterday a man with a gas-powered steel-brushed broom cleaned the slab of concrete that...
  • Operation Provident
    April 16, 2010
    Large Size Confederation Park, Stoney Creek: the edge of earth and water, the place where...