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  • Journey Learning

    Previously, on Joe's Life and Words, I was talking about "readwalking" and creativity and sunsets and wikis. Now, for the conclusion of my walkin' 'round... I did see hot air balloons at Noelridge (3), but I was so eng…

  • Monk Brain

    The last few days I've been reading a book called "The Intimate Merton" that is an edited compilation of the personal journals of Thomas Merton. Merton, as you all should know by now, is my favorite monk from the 1940s-…

  • Airplane Thoughts

    I took a ride on a plane today (work trip). As often happens, it was a surreal experience of evaluating life and "everything" -- a combination of the sheer height above the earth, the fact of traveling and being out of …

  • New Car Thoughts

    As many of you know (either from talking to me or from Facebook), I bought a new car on Friday afternoon. It's a Honda Fit, which is a model that seems highly recommended by several reputable sources (web sites, magazin…

  • Problems with "Contemplative Spirituality"?

    Someone mentioned to me today a website that has as its goal to point out the un-Christianness and un-Biblicalness of contemplative spirituality -- the authors of the website see contemplative spirituality in broad terms…

  • Mission and Love

    I had the opportunity to hang out with some people tonight and go see an MST3K version of the movie TRON. I decided not to go, and went running instead and then came home. I was going to read about the power of mass co…

  • The Other Merton

    Sometimes you just can't look up to people. Or at least you can't look up to people without critical thinking. I was leaving feedback on Amazon for the purchase of a Thomas Merton book. They recommended another one th…

  • Trains and A Buncha Mental Notes

    Where have I been? It's been a while, and I've had birthday parties and ridden trains between the previous post and this one. So, jumping to the present.. I rode a train today. It was the Iowa Northern Hawkeye Express…

  • All Things New

    "Living is the constant adjustment of thought to life and life to thought in such a way that we are always growing, always experiencing new things in the old and old things in the new. Thus life is always new." - T Mert…

  • Magic Present

    In PIGS we're going through The Screwtape Letters by CS Lewis. One of the chapters talked about how one of the devil's tactics is to get us to dwell on the past OR the future, which means in either case we ignore the pr…

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