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Sarah, Liz, and Becca
Brad and Deitrich get the fire going
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We closed on our first house just before thanksgiving. Its on 42nd st in south minneapolis, close to hiway 55.
Filed under: Art, Music, Recommend | Tags: brad senne, folk, minneapolis music
This is a music video of Minneapolis based musician Brad Senne. Sing & Dance is track #1 on his latest album, Aerial Views, which is great for autumn ears. Let’s just say it goes well with apple cider. His style is soft and hypnotic; very inviting. You know, the kind of sad music that makes you happy. Click on the album title above and hear some of his other tracks.
Filed under: Faith, Recommend | Tags: Faith, interview, john piper, npr, problem of evil, tsunami
I found a fascinating NPR interview with John Piper from a few years ago. The host (I forget her name) chose Piper as a part of a series in response to the devastating tsunami of 2005. In the wake of this calamity, she wanted to discover how different faith backgrounds answer the problem of evil. If you dug around the NPR site you could probably find the interviews with Hindu, Muslim, Buddist, Jewish religious leaders.
Here is the link to the interview. (Well worth the listen!)
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Town Talk Diner. Check it out if you’re looking for something delicious and fresh. Their philly cheese steak will change your life.
Just a few quotes from brilliant comedian, Demetri Martin.
“About a month ago I got a cactus. A week later, it died. I was really depressed because I was like ‘Ah, Man! I am less nurturing than a desert.”
“I was at a party, and I saw a guy with a leather jacket, and I thought, ‘That’s cool’. Then I saw a guy with a leather vest and I thought, ‘That’s not cool’. It was then that I realized what coolness is all about… leather sleeves.”
“Employee of the month is a good example of how somebody can be both a winner and a loser at the same time.”
“I wonder what the most intelligent thing ever said was that started with the word ‘dude.’ ‘Dude, these are isotopes.’ ‘Dude, we removed your kidney. You’re gonna be fine.’ ….. ’Dude, I am so stoked to win this Nobel Prize. I just wanna thank Kevin, and Turtle, and all my homies.”
“I like video games, but they’re really violent. I’d like to play a video game where you help the people who were shot in all the other games. It’d be called ‘SuperBusy Hospital.’ “
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First a recap:
Friday 7:35: View listing of home. First “I think this might be it” moment.
Friday 10:20am: Book showing for saturday.
Saturday 11:15 am: Liz visits house while Eric goes to Gophers game.
Saturday 12:45pm: Liz calls Eric says he should come look at the house after the game. Repeats “I think this it”-like comments.
Satuday 2:20pm: Eric walks around house, talks about woodwork. Pretends to look investigative-ly at the furnace and soffits. Loves the house.
Saturday 2:45pm: Decide to put an aggresive offer on under-priced house. $10,000 above asking price.
Sunday: Realtor submits offer, finds out offers will be sent to seller Monday morning.
Monday 7:30a.m – 6:30pm: Check email on average of six times on the hour.
Monday 6:35pm: Paige calls. Liz sighs. We were first this morning but then someone blew our bid out of the water. Back to square one.
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Its like we went on a first and second date and it went AWEsome. And so we proposed. We called friends and family. She took a day to think about it and in the meantime some other guy, probably European, came in and dropped a 1 carat diamond and we were left in a Stevens Square apartment with the heater broken.
I’m being dramatic. But it is crazy how fast such big decisions happen in this house-buying market. We’re bummed but not crushed. Advice to self: Don’t get to second base with a house that hasn’t said “I do”.
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Closing clip from new show called “Community.”
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This is a short song I have been working on this week. I’ve been thinking alot about the reality of God. Knowing the attributes of God is good for doctrine and good for preaching to yourself in the mirror. Doctrine is essential in leading to a clearer perception of reality, but it isn’t the reality itself. God is not an idea. He is a living being. The Holy Being and The Ultimate Reality. I have been praying that his attributes become real to me. We all have a hunger to know and be known by our Creator. By extraordinary grace, love, and awesomeness, God wants us too! In fact,he didn’t just love us back he loved us first. (1 John 4:10) If I could only grasp the complete reality and utter immensity of his love, grace, and sovereignty…how would I act? How would I speak? How would I trust?
I was a prodigal son in the famine and fire
I left the feast for the mud and the mire
I wanted the world, you wanted me
You broke into my soul so I could see
How long, how wide, how deep is your love in my life (2x)
I have stumbled on doubt with tears of need
You know my heart, help me believe
That the season of pain is a seed to sew.
I’m not there yet, but maybe one day I’ll know
How long, how wide, how deep is your love in my life (2x)
You came to me, you loved me first
You were the water of my thirst
A treasure in a jar of clay
With trembling I can proclaim
How long, how wide, how deep is your love in my life (2x)
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Last week while rummaging through a thrift store I stumbled on an old coffee table book “Andy Goldsworthy: A Collaboration with Nature.” The name caught my eye, I remembered being introduced to this artist in a college art class. I bought the book and revived my fascination with the man’s unique gifts and vision.
Goldsworthy medium is strictly nature. Pure and without supplement. He uses whatever he can find: rocks, leaves, bark, snow, ice, twigs, feathers, petals–and creates striking sculpture. What I appreciate is that his work is not just enticing visually, it is also innovative and philosophical. He often creates a sculpture that is destined for destruction, whether it will come from a slight gust of wind or the looming ocean tide. He loves to embrace that tension and witness nature as a state of perpetual change and motion. Seasons, and tides, and sunlight, and temperature….they are constantly changing. His work attempts to interact with the beauty of that motion.
If you are a Net Flix person (and actually sections of it might be on youtube), and are remotely intrigued, I would highly recommend the documentary called “Rivers and Tides” which is all about the work of Goldsworthy. Sometimes you see an amazing sculpture and you say “how’d he do that?”….its cool to actually get an answer to that question in the film.
Rowan leaves laid around a hole
Broken pebbles
Knotweed stalks made complete by reflection
