Friday, April 14, 2006  | friday is Good
Category: Podcast i love finding out that you have totally obscure things in common with newish friends. like the way you played high school basketball. christopher and i had some serious revelations last night.
then we watched kingdom on heaven. it's not that, good (let's be honest).
it seemed like a lot of people got to walk the stations of the cross today. that's awesome. i can't believe how many people vigiled this week (many people were at multiple nights). i hope you can let him rise in you this weekend.
..
who's ready to go
into the grave with Jesus
then rise to new life?
 | Currently listening:
The Brave and the Bold
By Tortoise & Bonnie Prince Billy
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| | Thursday, April 13, 2006 | old friends/walk through the nay'b
Current mood:  calm
Category: Fashion, Style, Shopping i got to hang out with one of my most special friends last night/today. i've known this dude only for 7yrs, but he and i just hit it off. that is such a good feeling.
i had an incredible feeling today making final changes to the Stations of the Cross route through East Kensington. (from noon till 3 tomorrow, feel free to drop by (Upstairs) and pray, grab a sheet and walk them). i kept walking by my friends' houses and seeing people i know. walking along knowing that i have people who are like family two blocks up from here, a block up from there. i finally had to stop by luke's new place to say what's up (they are trying to get loads of people to help them paint saturday if you are available).
the vigils have been pretty stimulating this week. foot washing tonight (can be scary, especially when garza is in town and told me that his feet are funky).
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| | Wednesday, April 12, 2006 | eberhard arnold can't jump
Current mood:  contemplative
Category: Life "sometimes when you win, you really lose. sometimes when you lose, you really win..." (that goes on and grows more confusing, but Rosie Perez said that in White Men Can't Jump).
it's really true. even if you're telling the truth, if you bash dudes over the head with it you still lose. sometimes we sell out the truth just for value for the relationship...also lose.
i think it was Eberhard Arnold (also a circle of hope proverb) who said "love without truth lies while truth without love kills."
the whole truth in love thing is hard. the older i get (i've been saying that a lot lately) the more carefully (hopefully lovingly) i try to get into conflict, and the more conflict i have because of love.
a fortune cookie
throws out cliches left and right,
not a real person
listening to: Caetano Veloso, livro 10:38 AM - 1 Comments - 0 Kudos - Add Comment | |
| | Tuesday, April 11, 2006 | don't party next to this harbor
Current mood:  busy
Category: Life the ralley was pretty cool yesterday. i'm glad it was a celebratory time, that was nice. doing the wave around the fountain at love park was a treat. loads of young mexicans, colombians, nicaraguans, chinese, koreans, bangladeshis, west africans, and others (with a handful of caucausoids)-i'm still not sure how many-were on hand. it was joyous.
i came across this messed up article, about a guy who fell into a harbor in Hawaii and got a flesh-eating skin disease that is killing him.
retreat from retreat
calm before the storm so short
the storm is over
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| | Monday, April 10, 2006 | show some love in love park
Current mood:  irate
Category: Life i'm going in like 5 minutes to Love Park to join probably thousands of others to publicly demonstrate that we think that HR 4437 is horse shit, and will not let the elected leaders play footsie with such a ludicris legislative idea.
i'm trying to be real quick so sorry for coming off real heavy handed...this bill is "To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to strengthen enforcement of the immigration laws, to enhance border security, and for other purposes." some of the likely ideas are felony charges for aiding undocumented immigrants (up to 5yrs in prison), undocumented immigrants face felony charges and loss of many rights (inluding re-entry to the country)...there is a lot more. here is a link to a cool summary by the Vietnamese Student Union in So. Cal .
see you out there?
One worthless landmark.
The Statue of Liberty
would spin in her grave.
listening to: John Mallinen EP
ps...forgive me for posting an identical bulletin
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| | Sunday, April 09, 2006 | palm sunday
Current mood: contemplative
Category: Life today is one of my favorite days of the year. the day when many of us will unabashedly say "jesus is King." i love that. i love the image of so many churches getting together and waving those palm fronds (a symbol of triumph and victory)...so cool.
it is also with a taste of that old bittersweetness that we do that, because for those of us who "read ahead" in the gospels know that the same people that made him King today, had the [Romans] execute our King a week later.
the mob mentality can sweep people into doing good things and werid things, like above. i hope that as the mobs are out with the fronds, and we know that Jesus will be dying later this week, we are not just doing what is cool because it's some holiday. my prayer is that we can get a real personal connection to Jesus as being the king-and do it together.
we love you today,
as this week to get hairy
may we love you more
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| | Saturday, April 08, 2006 | chillin with the young pups
Current mood:  cheerful
Category: Life martha went on a women's retreat with a bunch of the ladies. it's the week for it, i guess. i think that's great. the chil'ins and i want to do some fun stuff today, and by golley we're going to. uncle jonny is gonna come over later (always a cause for joy 'mongst the chil'ins).
helena has a serious fort built in the dining room. i remember those days. lily's one clean pair of footie jammies broke so she's wearing the pants and long sleeve style. she looks too weird...to much like a little person and not enough like a baby.
(i' not really listening to ghostface. that was just for mike alms and pilger)
what's more important
a green, a glow, or a hat?
we're all glowing green
 | Currently listening:
Supreme Clientele
By Ghostface Killah
Release date: By 08 February, 2000  | 8:47 AM - 2 Comments - 2 Kudos - Add Comment | |
| | Friday, April 07, 2006 | weird weird world
Current mood:  anxious
Category: Life want to know how creepy the world can be? NYC cops convicted for doing mob hits (not the cd collection) . 70 die in an explosion at a shiite mosque in baghdad. JRoll's hitting streak ends. man. joseph wilson found out that the document that alleged Iraq buying uranium from Niger was totally fabricated (dead people's signitures, days of the week don't match up years, etc) and then his wife's CIA identitity gets leaked (putting her at risk as she was in the field and ruins her career as a spy or whatever) maybe by the Vice President's office...ah, man.
some good news...leann as well as luke & sarah are closing on their houses today.
belly is empty...
do i know what hunger is?
not like some others
 | Currently listening:
A Colores
By Tristeza
Release date: By 22 November, 2005  | 1:47 PM - 1 Comments - 0 Kudos - Add Comment | |
| | Thursday, April 06, 2006 | back from retreat
Current mood:  rejuvenated
Category: Life i just got back from a 30hr retreat to my favorite hermitage (the only one i've ever been to). i feel so refreshed. i try to go quarterly, but i seemed to just skip my january time.
when i got home i had the first season of quantum leap waiting for me on netflix. oh man.
also, i made a discovery. picante beef. so tasty.
kilimanjaro practice tonight, 8pm at the space, in case you forgot.
at every moment
i hope i can be present
to where You're going
 | Currently watching:
Quantum Leap - The Complete First Season
Release date: By 08 June, 2004  | 5:09 PM - 1 Comments - 1 Kudos - Add Comment | |
| | Tuesday, April 04, 2006 | tornadoes and shipwrecks
Current mood: calm
Category: Life i've seen little tornadoes before, but none like the wizard of oz. none that really wrecked stuff. one ripped through 8 states on sunday, killing at least 27 people (most of the dead in rural TN).
why does the NE not deal with disaster like all these other places? we're not on a fault line, don't get hurricanes, monsoons, tornadoes...we who live here most of our lives have a hard time putting those things really into our heads.
some people think that God made the world, and because he is good is not supposed to let bad things happen. at this point, i don't think that. i'm more inclined to go with the desert fathers and say that the world is a shipwreck, and we must all swim for shore. i would say that Jesus is salvation from a broken world that is hostile. when disasters like this tornado remind me that even nature is volitile, i remember that unhealthy relationships and damaging behaviour can do the same thing to our insides.
i morn the dead, especially when i read that article about the funeral parlor owner who has to bury his grandkids, son, and daughter-in-law. i don't blame God because something bad happening. i turn to Jesus because he is the true safety in a hostile world, and when the shit hits the fan (and it will, eventually) i don't want to be clinging to what i think is important right now. i want to be clinging to that real freedom where even when all is lost, there is jesus.
did that mean something?
in the corner of my eye...
i've always wondered.
 | Currently listening:
Born into Brothels
By Original Soundtrack
Release date: By 13 December, 2005  | 9:01 AM - 6 Comments - 5 Kudos - Add Comment | |
Monday, April 03, 2006 | another baby/worship
Current mood: calm
Category: Life another baby was born last wknd...my friends jaime and aaron in s.jersey. their baby wasn't due until the middle of may (Ella is 4lbs 13oz now). we're going this morning to see them. martha and jaime have been friends since they were in 6th grade.
i do have to say, about the public meeting last night, the worship team was completely and udderly off the hook at the 7. i cannot ever remember a packed room of people (mostly in their 20's) having so much fun while sincerly worshipping Jesus. in my mind, we do pensive real well. we do chilled out with a twist of somber real well. happy is cheesy. snook and jeremy took us there last night with the Spirit.
one other thing, jenni bender got me hooked on BintoB soundtrack. it rules.
one other other thing, if you want to hook jesse and lois with a meal in the next couple weeks, contact holly mclaughlin (if you don't have her info send me a message).
ebb and flow,
the darkness to light,
moving fast
| Currently listening:
Born into Brothels
By Original Soundtrack
Release date: By 13 December, 2005 | 11:04 AM - 4 Comments - 6 Kudos - Add Comment | |
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