Night

Night comes in with a shy reluctance
and is allowed to stay in this village,
but only for so long.
Before night can get comfortable
it's swept, into manageable piles,
by the elegant lamps edging the
knotted streets.
Bricks are neatly stacked
by anxious workmen,
nets are stowed on fishing boats
and the sun is hoisted to the mountain top.
Lonely night is quickly sent home,
the village too impatient
...

In this last week or so I have come to an impasse in my Christian life.

The small home group that I have been involved with in recent months is just not working out. I don't mean to say that the people there are not great folks. They are. They are some of the few Christians I have ever met who have been willing to put their faith where their mouth is and do something to help one another with needs that each might have in their lives. It's been wonderful to behold that and I...

In Tribute of Ruth

She was 63 when she died, Tuesday morning, October 6th. Her passing is mourned by her family, friends, and me -- who never met her.

No, I am not some nut that reads obituaries and feigns grief for the unknown. She was my best friend's older sister. Though we never met, I "knew" her from her sister's sharing during the last year, since Ruth's diagnosis of lung cancer.

No, she never smoked a day in her life. A devout Mormon daughter...

I dont really have much to say about this movie except that it was bad. Who would figure a Will Ferrell movie would suck? Sarcasm off. If you are looking for a comedy like this, Year One is better but it also kind of sucks...just not as bad as this.

The Proposal: Sandra Bullock stars as a woman who is married to her career, but the fact that's she's not an American citizen threatens to end everything she loves about her life. Desperate to stay in the U.S., she proposes to her assistant (played by Ryan Reynolds). He makes some demands from her, and the two of them end up flying to Alaska to convince both his quirky family...