I’ve been thinking about the idea of polarization lately. Democrats vs Republicans Conservatives vs liberals Mizzou vs kU Christians vs Atheists Prolife vs Prochoice Anything! Everything! Every issue can become so easily polarized… so easily binary. This or that. Me vs you. I know that there is a “moderate” safe ground between a lot of [...] Read more – ‘Polarize Everything!’.
Merry Christmas! I’m blogging right now as half my family is asleep in the living room from Christmas Dinner Coma. What a blessed day. The warmth of being around family and the remembrance of Christ’s birth. Earlier today while driving around, I listened to what I consider the mewithoutYou Christmas song: There’s something I really [...] Read more – ‘Christmas 2011’.
Here is a TED talk from Brene Brown titled “The Power of Vulnerability” Some quotes I pulled (with added thoughts): -”Life’s messy, love it.” vs “Life’s messy, clean it up.” – I think this is an interesting thing to think about. I definitely fall more on the “love it” side, I mean, you kind of [...] Read more – ‘The power of vulnerability’.
If you’ve talked to me anytime, for any length of time, in the past three months, we’ve probably shared at least a few words regarding #occupy. I am so intrigued by the movement! It has taken me a long time, but today I think I came a lot closer to understanding my fondness of it [...] Read more – ‘99%’.
2 years ago I posted this to my blog: It was 5 years ago, maybe to the minute, that I sat in an office building that was full of candles and tears. I dont think I cried in that office building though. I cried that day. I was confused and uncertain. Earlier in the day [...] Read more – ‘Tylor Tayrien’.
Yeah, I go Black Friday shopping. Whatofit? If you haven’t, you should. Just once at least. You’ll learn more about our culture in one night if you keep your eyes and ears open than you will over an entire season of Jersey Shore. I have to say that there is a tragic irony in the [...] Read more – ‘A Dark Friday’.
I think I’ve concluded that thankfulness must drive us to humility. Without that, it isn’t true thanksgiving… it’s more entitlement with recognition, or something of the like. There is no independence. We are contingent upon one another… and for a reason. Here is a glimpse into my family’s Thanksgiving. My nephew takes baths in the [...] Read more – ‘Give Thanks’.
Check out this article from the NY Times. My coworker mentioned this article to me and my initial reaction was that it sounded like we are giving Paterno a pass, letting passivity win because we are all, at root, passive. I felt that way half way through reading the article too but toward the end [...] Read more – ‘Let’s All Feel Superior – NYTimes.com’.
Ira Glass on Storytelling from David Shiyang Liu on Vimeo. This quote from Ira Glass has been floating around the internets a lot lately: “Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But [...] Read more – ‘Taste!’.
Previously, I had my photography blog and I had a “thoughts” blog, and I kept them separate. Why? I thought that keeping my Christian views and work separate would be best. Keep my faith out of business… and let my work speak for itself. I’ve come to a point where I don’t think that makes [...] Read more – ‘Where to From Here?’.
