Art GalleryNext week, Saturday Oct. 7, Terra Nova hosts its first Art Gallery opening. For the past 6 months, we have featured art by local artists, including members of our own community. But, next Saturday we will make the gallery “official”. The installment, naturally titled “THREE” includes photography by three local artists. This showing will [...]
Sunday @ 425 River St.It was hard to miss some obvious pieces: 1. it was packed. People were even up in the balcony at the reail, at cabaret tables of dancing wildly in worship. 2. people are belonging to each other. In other words, there is real commnity, intentional gathering, and sharing of the [...]
24 hours on River Street {troy ny}I’m out of 409 early in the afternoon on Friday. I have a school appointment for one of my sons and then a daughter’s first soccer game. I pay my tab @ Del-i-cious. Doreen wishes me a good weekend. She always does. The Butterfingers are selling like crazy, she tells [...]
Reflections on the ResistanceWe are all rebels and slaves. It is simply a quesation of against what do we rebel and what or whom do we serve. To answer these questions is to understand the soul.
Some, especially those who have been weakened in this world where conflict is the cardinal sin and men no longer sharpen [...]
Caption the Crazy Dude“I want my MTV!”
09.11.06I listened to NPR this morning on the way into the Daily Grind to meet the pastors. I was listening to the writer’s almanac with Garrison Keillor and heard a 09.11 tribute poem. I am not sure how many of you heard it, but i thought i would post it. It touched [...]
Fall is here, hear the yellIt has always been my favorite season. The reasons have changed. The smell, the crisp air, the first visibly cool breaths in the morning. I love Autumn. (Actually one of my children was nearly named Autumn.) The sights remind me of the seemingly impossible truth of God that even in [...]