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2004 Movies

Tue, 1 Jun 2004 21:16:18 -0700

2003 Movies Big Fish - 3/27/04 Broken Wings - 6/1/04

2004 Spirituality

Mon, 17 May 2004 09:56:05 -0700

2003 Spirituality Why Faith? - 5/17/04 Maundy Thursday - 4/8/04 Sunday Morning - 3/28/04 The Passion - 2/29/04 Last Sunday of the Epiphany - 2/22/04 Business and Mass - 1/18/04

Travel 2004

Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:32:01 -0700

To New York City for Christmas - Continued from Travel 2003 New Years Day - 1/1/04 Appalachians to the Mississippi River - 1/2/04 Mainly Texas - 1/3/04

Travel 2003

Wed, 1 Oct 2003 21:28:16 -0700

Previous Travel To California 9/2003 - Mike & Lauri's birthday Busing to Lakewood Party Time Back Again To California for Thanksgiving Tucson to Lakewood - 11/23/03 Griffith Park - 11/24/03 Santa Monica and LACMA - 11/25/03 Around Long Beach - 11/26/03 Thanksgiving Day - 11/27/03 Geocaching by the Pacific - 11/28/03 Back to Tucson - 11/29/03 To New York for Christmas Tucson to Texas - 12/23/03 Christmas Eve - 12/24/03 Christmas Day - 12/25/03 Heading North - 12/26/03 East to New York City - 12/27/03 WTC, Christmas and the Guggenheim - 12/28/03 MoMaQns & The Nutcracker - 12/29/03 The Met and The Ring - 12/30/03 New Years Eve - 12/31/03 - Continued in Travel 2004

2003 Movies

Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:12:19 -0700

Previous Movies - 7/20/03 - The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen 10/11/03 - Luther 6/16/03 - The Matrix: Reloaded 5/26/03 - A Mighty Wind 3/19/03 - The Pianist 12/30/03 - The Lord of the Ring: The Return of the King 10/29/03 - The Secondhand Lion 5/11/03 - X2

2003 Reads

Sat, 8 Nov 2003 20:33:38 -0700

Prior reads - Biography - Lenten Lands - by Douglas H. Gresham J. R. R. Tolkien: Author of the Century - by Tom Shippey Fiction - the only good thing anyone has ever done - by Sandra Newman The English Patient - by Michael Ondaatje All Quiet on the Western Front - by Erich Maria Remarque Mystery - Milwaukee Summers Can Be Deadly - by Kathleen Anne Barrett Mama Stalks the Past - by Nora DeLoach Good Night Sweet Prince - by David Dickinson Murder Can Cool off Your Affair - by Selma Eichler The Eyre Affair - by Jasper Fford Bone of Contention - Roberta Gellis The Pale Companian - by Philip Gooden Out on a Limb - by Joan Hess Posted to Death - by Dean James Eat, Drink and be Buried - by Peter King Slow Dollar How to Marry a Millionaire - by Nancy Martin Chickahominy Fever - by Ann McMillan Dead Midnight - by Marcia Muller In the Bleak Midwinter - by Julia Spencer-Fleming Crooked Heart - by Cristina Sumners Murder of a Barbie and Ken - by Denise Swanson The Devil Riding - by Valerie Wilson Wesley Howling Bloody Murder - by Sue Owens Wright Nonfiction - At Home in Mitford - by Jan Karon Science - Deep Time - by Gregory Benford Science Fiction - The Eyre Affair - by Jasper Fford Children of the Shaman - by Jessica Rydill The Narnia series by CS Lewis - The Magician's Nephew The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Prince Caspian The Horse and His Boy The Voyage of the Dawn Treader The Silver Chair The Last Battle The Peshawar Lancers - by S M Stirling The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings - by JRR Tolkien Spirituality - Loving God - by Charles Colson Memoir of a Misfit - by Marcia Ford The Great Divorce - by CS Lewis -

Good Quotes

Sun, 7 Dec 2003 08:44:40 -0700

Politics: "Oh bother," said the Borg, "we've assimilated Pooh." - unknown "I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty." -- John D. Rockefeller, Jr. "Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity." --Robert Heinlein "For the totalitarian mind, adherence to state propaganda does not suffice: one must display proper enthusiasm while marching in the parade." -- Noam Chomsky 'The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane and intolerable, and so, if he is romantic, he tries to change it. And even if he is not romantic personally he is very apt to spread discontent among those who are.' (H.L. Mencken,Smart Set magazine,December 1919) "War is God's way of teaching Americans geography." -Ambrose Bierce "For a commercial company trying to make investments, you need a stable environment; dictatorships can give you that." Memo written by a spokesperson for Shell Nigeria (from The Culture of Make Believe by Derrick Jensen -------------------------------------- To live by: "People hardly ever make use of the freedom they have. For example, the freedom of thought. Instead they demand freedom of speech as a compensation." -Kierkegaard "If a person doesn't have bitter regrets by the time he's thirty, what's life about, anyway? Everybody has to have a big flowering crabapple tree in their backyard turn crimson and maroon in October, to remind them of some great, glorious, miserable, terrific mistake that they made in the past." - Garrison Keillor The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not "Eureka" (I found it) but "That's funny..." -- Isaac Asimov 'I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.' -- Douglas Adams "What if the Hokey Pokey IS what it's all about?" from a bumper sticker "You dehumanize a man as much by returning him to nature - by making him one with rocks, vegetation, and animals - as by turning him into a machine. For both the natural and the mechanical are the opposite of that which is uniquely human." --Eric Hoffer 'Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.' -Philip K. Dick "The thing most alien to the true idea of humanity, is the notion that our well-being lies in surpassing our fellows. We have to rise above ourselves, not above our neighbours; to take all the good 'of' them, not 'from,' and give them all our good in return. That which cannot be freely shared, can never be possessed. . ." - excerpt from: ''There and Back' by George MacDonald "When trouble arises and things look bad, there is always one individual who perceives a solution and is willing to take command. Very often, that individual is crazy." -Dave Barry ----------------------------------------- Religion: "I swear to you, then," said MacIan. . . "I swear it by the god you have denied, by the Blessed Lady you have blasphemed; I swear it by the seven swords in her heart. I swear it by the Holy Island where my fathers are, by the honour of my mother, by the secret of my people, and by the chalice of the Blood of God." The Atheist drew up his head. "And I," he said, "give my word." _The Ball and the Cross_, G.K. Chesterton ----------------------------------------= Thoughts: Golf is an exercise in Scottish pointlessness for people who are no longer able to throw telephone poles at each other. - Florence King 'If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there are men on base.' -- Dave Barry A quote from an 19th century spoilsport - 1868 Northern Vindicator (Estherville, Iowa) 30 Dec., "The lascivious lolly-gagging lumps of licentiousness who disgrace the common decencies of life by their love-sick fawnings at our public dances." -------------------------------------------- Travel: "May all your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view......where something strange and more beautiful and more full of wonder than you deepest dreams waits for you." - Edward Abbey 'The Road goes ever on and on Down from the door where it began.' - From The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien-

Spirituality

Sun, 27 Jul 2003 22:10:08 -0700

Previous thoughts on spirituality - Lutherans - 10/6/03 Rock 'n Roll Religion - 8/24/03 Nightime walking - 7/27/03 myrituals.com - 7/12/03 What do I believe? - 6/29/03 Christian Witch/Pagan/whatever - 6/10/03 Ham - 5/26/03 Introvert - 5/25/03 Book review: Loving God by Charles Colson - 5/20/03 United Methodist - 5/5/03 Christians vs. Muslims - 4/24/03 St Michaels and All Angels - 4/6/03 New name in old clothes - 3/18/03

Art

Thu, 4 Sep 2003 21:31:19 -0700

In My Garden - 9/4/03

2003 Walks and Hikes

Sat, 23 Aug 2003 10:58:55 -0700

Marshall Gulch to Mint Springs - Trail Segment #48 - 8/24/02 Cactus Forest Trail - Trail Segement #22 - 12/27/02 Bridal Wreath Falls - Rincon Trail Segment #7 - 3/22/03 The Meadows and Sutherland Trails - 5/23/02 Lime Falls - 8/23/03 -