WWW.KIVA.ORGMatthew Miller turned me on to Kiva. It is a mirco-loan network. He will be talking to all of us about it @ Terra soon. It is an amazing idea to bring together need and resource on a person-to-person level. It is the power of influence. It is the opportunity [...]
basements, garages and the constant quest for controlMy basement sucks. It floods regularly even when it’s not raining. I have uninvited plant life growing in the french drains. And it smells. I have attempted to control these issues with two highly overworked sump pumps but sometimes even that doesn’t work. This past weekend, when one sump first clogged (2 hours to fix) [...]
catching up….There is so much good music out there right now. If you are writing out your Christmas list for your mother to give to Santa the next time she sees him at the mall, here are some to put on the list:
“The Crane Wife” The Decemberists
Amazing music and lyrics from a [...]
Advent Riff of the week:: |-|0P3So here I am in the green walled bunker I work from deep inside the terra nova central building. Executive Pastor Phil Taylor is being kept in an undiclosed location. He sublets it from cheney. Terra can yet afford our own undiclosed location.
I am sitting thinking about hope. Even the word [...]