http://johnmortensen.com/blog/index.php Causes of my insomnia Wed, 08 Oct 2008 09:52:32 GMT http://backend.userland.com/rss092 johnmortensen@cedarville.edu johnmortensen@cedarville.edu en ...this blog is moving. Why? In order to use a new version of WordPress which is more spiffier. From now on it will be here. This old blog will stay put for archival purposes. http://johnmortensen.com/blog/index.php?p=157 ...is up. There are many pictures from the Fall Festival. See them here: Red Brick Church Gallery http://johnmortensen.com/blog/index.php?p=156 The air is crisp and the sky is that particularly heartbreaking blue, heartbreaking both for its beauty and its rarity. Big day: Red Brick Church Festival. Bouncy house, with auxilliary slide, is rented and inflated. A thousand cubic feet of chili are warming downstairs in the kitchen. ... http://johnmortensen.com/blog/index.php?p=155 I promise to blog and post photos soon. We had our fall festival for the neighborhood today and many beautiful things came into being. I also have exactly 47 pictures sent to me by a Midtowner. Some of these are nearly works of art; especially the pumpkins on the ... http://johnmortensen.com/blog/index.php?p=154 http://johnmortensen.com/blog/index.php?p=153 The beloved Bishop of Durham spoke at Seattle Pacific University and has things to say which artists must hear (especially artists who find themselves marginalized by the Church). You can stream the lecture with Real Audio. You will have to wade through exactly twelve and a half minutes of blah ... http://johnmortensen.com/blog/index.php?p=151 Some kid told me last week that the kids from The Projects are bad. Bad? Why bad? Worse than you? They're just bad, I was told. That's all. Listen. The kid who told me this--the kid who thinks the Project kids are bad--this good kid lives in a neighborhood ... http://johnmortensen.com/blog/index.php?p=150 http://johnmortensen.com/blog/index.php?p=149 October has been changed to Roctober. This is to help everyone, ya know, rock. So go through your calendars and add an R wherever it sez October. Then it will be Roctober and you will rock for the rest of the month. Roctober Thoughts: The Demerits have now miraculously ... http://johnmortensen.com/blog/index.php?p=148 Things went badly wrong because they were sure it was all theirs... ...the vineyard, the press, the plants and wall and tower... Their sense of belonging (a good thing) escalated into a sense of ownership by right of conquest (a bad thing). How is it possible to belong, and yet remain somehow mindful ... http://johnmortensen.com/blog/index.php?p=147