ThoughtsOnLiving

Tulare County Travel

Just came across a Tulare County reference in a travel blog.  : )

Yeah, What He Said...

On Authentic Christianity:

...on what it means to be Church:

I am in a constant state of trying to understand preaching. I wonder what people get out of it in the long run. I wonder if it ultimately does more harm than good. Am I contributing to the idea that the ancient spiritual journey of Christianity can now mean nothing more than showing up at a building and listening to some person talk?

...and, a little more close to home...

In those few seconds, while the piano music is winding down, I am a little boy. I don’t have anything to offer anyone, and it doesn’t matter. No one expects anything from me. Just these few seconds are all I need for the week. Just a few seconds to help me remember who I am.

...read the rest of it here.

Sound Patterns

Just in case you didn't know, sound makes things move...

Today's Quote(s): October Skies

"On the afternoon of October 19, 1899, I climbed a tall cherry tree and, armed with a saw which I still have, and a hatchet, started to trim the dead limbs from the cherry tree. It was one of the quiet, colorful afternoons of sheer beauty which we have in October in New England, and as I looked towards the fields at the east, I imagined how wonderful it would be to make some device which had even the possibility of ascending to Mars. I was a different boy when I descended the tree from when I ascended for existence at last seemed very purposive."

    - Robert Goddard, father of modern rocketry

"It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow." (From his high school graduation oration, "On Taking Things for Granted", June 1904)