- 50 Words: Sleep as Information / The Fountain is a Water Feature Ed Steck’s 2014 pamphlet from COR&P will translate REM-sleep cycles into longitudinal word equations for you. The work is an unearthing of ephemeral neural networks, an insomniac charting territories around thought-patterns, an embodied record of disregarded taxonomies within consciousness. I enjoyed the non-linear cycling immensely. A portrait of a brain. Buy this limited edition book direct from […]
- Books, Books, Books Sometimes when I imagine heaven, I think of it as an endless library. An infinity to explore sounds nice to me. I think the library will extend far beyond just books. I imagine being able to have endless conversations with lots of people throughout history. I started using my moleskine journal in a slightly more calculated way […]
- I Often Reschedule Dates, and that is Just Fine Sometimes it is necessary to reschedule a date in order to go on a different kind. The kind where you drive across 1st street bridge alone, and you are enamored by the small-but-potent skyline. You will park in a fifteen minute zone in Downtown Los Angeles, furiously trying to read if at 8 o’clock the […]
- Summing up the Los Angeles Improv Scene; I Want to Go There. Last night I met up with Sarah Painter in Hollywood to see her improv teacher perform at the Upright Citizens Brigade. (See also: Amy Poehler, etc.) The show was called “Sentimental Lady: Guilty Pleasures” and was easily the best $7 I’ve spent in quite some time. Absolutely hilarious. Seven people play off of each other’s […]
- The Baby Jesus (& Risen Jesus) Would Like Me to Read More This Christmas, my family was all together, my brother cooked killer steaks on the grill, and I basked in the wonder of how many incredible books I received as gifts. (I also ran 7 miles, which felt altogether wonderful.) I promised Rachel Chester–please lady, do start blogging again–that I would post a quick list of the […]
- On the Road with Archangel Lu’s friends from college are hosting us here in Salt Lake City. They are very kind. I would like to introduce you to the framed delight on their living room wall. Also, Frederick Buechner signed their copy of this novel that I borrowed from their shelf in the guest room, On the Road With Archangel. […]
- Art Trumps Philosophy, says the Philosopher-Novelist “The literary writer deliberately leaves space for his reader to play in. The philosopher must not leave any space.” ~ Iris Murdoch
- I Remember Discovering Salinger (as Pseudo Psalmist) I remember reading a red and worn Catcher in the Rye for the first time in undergrad, I think at Sarah Painter’s insistence. And I remember reading it again, and again, and then again, laughing aloud increasingly more with each turn. “Humor is every bit as noble as drama and just as honest. To sit […]
- I’ve Lately Wondered if I Should Get Re-Baptized… Adult baptism was a dramatic event in the early church. After a lengthy period of study and fasting, the new Christian would be, in the darkness of Easter morning, stripped naked and fully immersed before being reclothed in new white garments–a symbol of death to the old life and birth to the new. –William Placher, […]
- day eighteen.
- Hiding/Remembering It is so nice to be home, again. I found the old paper Advent calendar I used to open as a kid. No chocolates hiding, just paper windows with images of Christmas and home. Yesterday it was baked bread. Today it was a candle. I used to get such a kick out of opening those […]
- Live the Questions, Now. “Mystery should be a continual part of your life. You should always have more questions than answers. If your encounters with God don’t leave you with more questions than when you started, then you have had an inferior encounter.” -Bill Johnson, The Supernatural Power of a Transformed Mind