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Who doesn’t like a headstone on Halloween? For others, check out the neat 18th century stuff on Relaxing by the trail.

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Is this really the “lake” at Fair Lakes? Am I the only one who has a minor fear of attacking geese? Why do I never have my tripod when I need it?

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This week in class: The Scopes Trial.

How has biblical inerrancy affected your life?

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There is a very cool small exhibit on early modern technologies of writing at the Folger Shakespeare Library. Have you ever really thought about where the term “penknife” came from? And do you know the origins of the first shorthand? Even better, erasable wax tablets, cyphers, and invisible ink…..

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A true sign of fall….. the tarragon is still holding on, but I’ll be sad when it’s gone.

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we all have the choice….

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So, I’m getting ready to try this picture a day thing…. nine days of warm-up before I really launch into the full year. The idea of these sorts of projects is that they force you to live in the now — today, not tomorrow or yesterday — with the people and things and events that are here, not the missing. These are lessons that Thomas Merton and a host of eastern mystics haven’t been able to teach me, so maybe my camera will have more success.
My first photography teacher, Martin Springborg, did this and it resulted in a nice show and really cool book, Proof: Ruminations on the Everyday.

(Note: I’ll probably take more than one a day, so if you want to see the whole selection you can try the flickr feed.)