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Places of prayer

Well, it took me all day to upload my first-ever YouTube video. I kept getting an Internal Server Error with the message, "A team of highly trained monkeys has been dispatched to deal with this situation."

It turns out the problem was caused by my choosing to respond to another YouTube video by uploading my own. I finally worked around it by just uploading my video, then making it a response.

What helps you get into a heart-position of prayer? Where are your places?

This is my contribution to an experiment in collaborative teaching we have begun at The Journey.

New books

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Not my final entry

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Long Solo Drive

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I drove to SoCal alone to visit my parents, and my in-laws. Today I did the long drive back. Sorry, I was bored.

Our first art experience

On Palm Sunday evening, our faith community hosted an art show. Initially my desire was simply to open the interactive mural to my friends, so that we could experience it together. I was content to sit there myself, just me and the wall, assisting the occasional person who might come through.

But the Friday people, who created the wall in the first place, went nuts. In two short days we transformed our meeting area into a full-on art show, with all sorts of homegrown creations and expressions. (I even showed two pieces of my own, if you can call "Spanking Night" a piece.) We had Brian Eno's ambient music, redid the lighting with the funky Ikea lamps from our own home, and served wine and cheese.

The cumulative effect was amazing. We succeeded in creating a radically different space that invited people to slow down, explore, and talk. 40-50 people not associated with our faith community came! I really felt that it was a comfortable and interesting space for my friends to explore spirituality (the 'E' of my PEZ dream) without any "church" baggage. Too bad none of them came, because they suck!

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Carpool lane, here I come

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A Promise

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This past Friday night on a beach in Santa Cruz. That's Rob "I have a new photo blog" flipping the burgers there. Check out his pics of the evening: Star Embers and Christians in the Wild.

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Video problem?

Birgit had trouble seeing my latest video on her PC. My other vlog entries aren't a problem for her. The problem may be a result of my installing QuickTime 7 since I last vlogged. She writes, "Clicking through from your blog didn't do it on either of four computers with the latest QuickTime, but if I open QuickTime and then type the address in under 'open file' it works. Go figure."

I'd like to solve this mystery before I post more video. Could other folks with PCs check it out? Thanks.

Movin' On Up

Shout Out

This is a shout out to my Soliton roomies: Greg, Jeph and Mike. But it also includes some movie recommendations.