Monthly Archives: August 2010

Futura

If you are looking for a regular looking type with just enough quirks to keep your interest, Futura may be your man. It’s actually the precision of the face that provides the quirkiness – the roundness of the O and the sharp points of the V or M

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and weary, too.

Restless is my mind,
and weary, too.
Eaten up by the things of this world.

But peaceful is the heart of God,
a refuge from the eternal storm
that is the unsatisfied soul of man.

So look not to man for knowledge.
Trust instead an […] Read the rest

I’ve Seen That Before

Sometimes you take a picture and the first time you see it printed out or on the screen you say, “I’ve seen something like that before.” Maybe from an album cover, a movie or a coffee table book.

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My Animated Movies

Here’s a list of my favorite animated movies. Yes, I have children. But even if I didn’t, I can watch these movies over and over again.

Title Director
Wall-E Andrew Stanton
Finding Nemo

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Published During My Reading Lifetime

This is a list of books that were published since I started reading “big boy” books over 30 years ago. The story is the thing in most of these, but the style plays a larger role in a couple of them. For me they are all influential in understanding

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10 Albums You Should Have That Maybe You Don’t

Here’s a list of albums that you may not have heard, but that will keep you interested on that desert island:

Album Artist
Sea Change Beck
Soup Blind Melon
Miles

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Kim Richey

This is a new kind of playlist. One artist only. Not a greatest hits, really. Just my favorites from an artist I think you will enjoy. Sometimes it’s not so easy to get all my favorites on one disk, but I do for these lists. And rarely are the

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Mere Christianity

God made us: invented us as a man invents an engine. A car is made to run on petrol, and it would not run properly on anything else. Now God designed the human machine to run on Himself. He Himself is the fuel our spirits were designed

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Arrogance

Arrogance is one’s belief he is superior to others. It is the corruption of confidence and, in the political arena, it leads to dogma rather than dialogue. It is what leads the political class to assure us what they are doing is for our own good, as if we were […] Read the rest

Dreams Fulfillment Lost

Caught

whileing away another day,
along with so many days before.
Wasted, woeful dismay,
me and the days before

gone in a mirage
of things I did and things I didn’t.
Reflections of azure,
beautiful but emptied

hazy horizons in the distance,
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