The Audacity of Hope My Personal Photo Project of the Week this week was to photograph the historical event of a sitting President of the United States visiting Boone. It hasn’t happened since Eisenhower. It was a surprise bonus that I would be able to photograph my Mom in the… Read More »Personal Photo Project of the Week #131
A few weeks back I went to the Republican Straw Poll with Russell, even though I will be voting for Obama in 2012. Here are a few pictures: Bachmann definitely had the best organization at this event. McCotter’s way creepy van. Members of the “Lamestream Media”, no doubt. The line… Read More »The Straw Poll
Jason Baier correctly answered the Christopher D. Bennett Trivia Question: Q: What brand of camera does Christopher D. Bennett A: Sony. I also would have accepted Minolta with a lengthy explanation of how Sony bought out Minolta. If anybody would have listed Sony, Minolta and Holga, well there wouldn’t be… Read More »Proust No. Five
Angie DeWaard correctly answered the Christopher D. Bennett Trivia Question: Q: What is the 1 thing Christopher D. Bennett always buys when he goes to an Iowa State game? A: A program. Proust Quote “Our intonations contain our philosophy of life, what each of us is constantly telling himself about… Read More »Proust No. Three
Here is a copy of the journal I kept while I was on vacation last week. It covers parts of 10 days and over 1300 miles. While I doubt anybody reads this whole thing, it was an important exercise for me. There are no pictures, but I will post some… Read More »Vacation Journal
Pardon and Sanctify Me This cross stands on top of my church. It no longer looks like this because the it was painted during the tuckpointing process last year. The name comes from a classic hymn: 1. On a hill far away stood an old rugged cross, the emblem of… Read More »December
This is entry number 750 in this online journal. I’d like to take a little bit of time to archive some data. It is one of my peculiar imbecilities that I love meaningless statistics. Therefore, consider these statistics: Every journal entry falls into at least one of sixteen categories. This… Read More »Number 750
Proust Quote:“A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.” Confessions Question:Where would you like to live? Confidences Question:The country where I should like to live. Proust’s Answer:A country where certain things that I should like would come true as though by magic, and where tenderness… Read More »Proust Questionnaire Number Nine
Proust Quote: “Our intonations contain our philosophy of life, what each of us is constantly telling himself about things.” Confessions Question: Your favorite poets. Confidences Question: My favorite poets. Proust’s Answer: Baudelaire and Alfred de Vigny I’m not sure that there are any poets that I have “discovered” this year.… Read More »Proust Questionnaire Number Seven
Once a year I get together and have a meal with Mark Wolfram. Unfortunately for me, I only get to see Mark once a year because he spends most of the year in Taiwan teaching, doing mission work and publishing The Taiwan Times. Wednesday night was that night. Mark met… Read More »Sedulous
On April 3, I got a text message as I was driving to work. I dug my phone out of my pocket and was surprised to see that it was a message from James. I read the message: Wow! I thought. It is pretty darn cool to live in a… Read More »State of Enlightenment
I took Wednesday off to go down to Tom Harkin’s office with Jesse to meet with one of Tom Harkin’s assistants to discuss the situation in Uganda. If you are not familiar with what is going on in Uganda, I would suggest you check out a video put together by… Read More »Better than Work
Jesse and I woke up in Coolidge, Arizona and made our way to a local diner for breakfast. This place was certainly McCain Country. We sat at the breakfast counter and listened to a couple locals complain about the governor for “being nice” to Obama. They agreed that the governor… Read More »Arizona Day 4
After we Del Taco, we returned to the park with the small mountain. A hole in the roof of the mini-mountain. Eric looking down on all that he rules after he ascended the peak of the mini-mountain. More Eric. The view from the mini-mountain. Lowell and Jesse Mini-mountain Lowell, Eric… Read More »Arizona Day 3 – Part B
Happy Birthday to Elainie! Of course today is also Election Day. I’m not the type that tells people how to think or vote politically. I think everybody knows who I’m supporting. However, I’ve never felt it necessary to try and convince people to think like me. I trust that everybody… Read More »Happy Birthday and or Election Day
On Wednesday I looked at about 10 houses. I kind of liked 1 house, so I might have a bit of direction as to what kind of house I want. Here are some pictures. I think I want to build something like this at some point. This house had a… Read More »House Search
Here are some pictures from the suffrage march on Saturday. My favorite sign is from the march is the sign about “Idiots” having the right to vote, but not women. For some reason that sign reminds me of Buck vs. Bell. The 1927 Supreme Court where The Supreme Court concluded… Read More »Suffrage March
If you are looking for something interesting to do in Boone this weekend, check out this article from the Des Moines Register. It is about a historical re-enactment of the only Suffrage March to occur in Iowa. It occurred in Boone almost 100 years ago. It is interesting to think… Read More »Boone and Women’s Voting History
On Saturday night we celebrated Doris’ 80th birthday with a birthday dinner. Not to be mistaken with a birthday party. It was a good time and it was the first time I had seen Janice and Mary Beth in quite some time. Janice gave me this cool sticker:
A couple more pictures that were not selected. I took this picture last year when Jay went on his first ever trip on the Boone & Scenic Valley Railroad. I threw this particular picture into the mix to see if anybody would consider selecting this picture because of the nature… Read More »Estranged
You see, boys forget what their country means by just reading The Land of the Free in history books. Then they get to be men they forget even more. Liberty’s too precious a thing to be buried in books, Miss Saunders. Men should hold it up in front of them… Read More »Exercise Your Enfranchisement