Today is a major holiday! Today is the day that Iowa State plays Minnesota in the Insight Bowl! I thought I would celebrate this major holiday by sharing some of my favorite pictures from the season. It is one of the greatest days of the year. Today would be a… Read More »Happy Insight Bowl!
Proust Quote:“What a profound significance small things assume when the woman we love conceals them from us.” We have come to the end of the days where I will answer any more Proust questions. I hope some people got something out of this little exercise. I will give special thanks… Read More »Proust Questionnaire Number Sixteen
Proust Quote: “Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.” Confessions Question: What I hate the most. Confidences Question: What I hate most of all. Proust’s Answer: What is bad about me. I’m clearly too arrogant to hate what is… Read More »Proust Questionnaire Number Fifteen
Proust Quote: “The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.” Confessions Question: Your idea of misery. Confidences Question: What would be my greatest misfortune? Proust’s Answer: Not to have known my mother or grandmother. I once stated that the greatest misery is waiting for… Read More »Proust Questionnaire Number Fourteen
I’m trying to figure out a good way to post Mark’s most recent newsletter. He has what I think is a most ingenious idea. He is posting a new thing that he is thankful for on the 12 days of Christmas. It has come to my attention that most people… Read More »12 Days of Christmas – Part 1
IMAGE LOST Hope, Peace, Joy and Love are promises offered to us by God, and all of them manifest in this one we light tonight: the Christ Candle. In Christ we find the hope of transformation, the peace that follows justice, the joy of self-fulfillment in community, and the love… Read More »Happy Christmas Eve
I think I’ve only shared these pictures with one person, but some of these are framed and going on my wall. I thought I would share them with people who might not make it to my house in the foreseeable future. There are more pictures going on the wall, but… Read More »25 Years
Proust Quote: “Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.” Confessions Question: Your favorite qualities in a woman. Confidences Question: The quality I desire in a woman. Proust’s Answer: Manly virtues, and frankness in friendship. I do have to repeat – “Did I mention that Proust was gay?”… Read More »Proust Questionnaire Number Thirteen
Proust Quote: “All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.” Confessions Question: Your main fault. Confidences Question: My main fault. Proust’s Answer: Not knowing, not being able to “want”. Ye be warned, any that go much further. What lies below is… Read More »Proust Questionnaire Number Twelve
“You know, my dear, the moment I looked into your eyes I knew that you did not have the mind for the noble art of Divination. See? Right here. You may be young in years but the heart that beats beneath your bosom is as shriveled as an old maid’s,… Read More »Gridiron Prophets Year 4
Proust Quote:“People can have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others.” Confessions Question:Your favourite occupation. Confidences Question:My favorite occupation. Proust’s Answer:Loving. Proust does give a pretty darn good answer to this question. But if you were to define occupation as… Read More »Proust Questionnaire Number Eleven
Proust Quote: “Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.” Confessions Question: Your idea of happiness Confidences Question: My dream of happiness. Proust’s Answer: I am afraid it be not great enough, I dare not speak it, I am afraid of destroying it by speaking it. That… Read More »Proust Questionnaire Number Ten
Mark’s monthly newsletter from Taiwan. Hey everyone. This is more of a November email, than newsletter. My apologies for not getting a full blown newsletter, and for not sending this in a more timely manner. I wanted to give you a quick update on how things are going in Taiwan.… Read More »Taiwan Times – November 2009
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:“Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names do in the course of a year or two.” Confessions Question:Your favorite names. Confidences Question:My favorite names. Proust’s Answer:I only have one at a time. The Proust Quote really nails this… Read More »Proust Questionnaire Number Eight
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
Today is the anniversary of the birth of Jesse Lee (Lex) Howard. Here is but a poor sampling of pictures of the times we have shared in recent years. After beating that net! In Clinton, Iowa on The Road Trip – 2006 With the World’s Largest Cheeto Jesse’s Picture on… Read More »Happy Birthday Jesse!
Marcel Proust Quote: “Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.” Confessions Question: The natural talent I’d like to be gifted with. Confidences Question: The gift of nature I would like to have. Proust’s Answer: Will-power, and seductiveness. I have many extremely talented friends.… Read More »Proust Questionnaire Number Six
Marcel Proust Quote:“Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.” Confessions Question:Your favorite qualities in a man. Confidences Question:The quality that I desire in a man. Proust’s Answer:Feminine charms. Proust and I diverge quite a bit on this answer. (Did I mention that… Read More »Proust Questionnaire Number Five
Marcel Proust Quote: “A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.” Confessions Question: Your favorite motto. Confidences Question: My motto. Proust’s Answer: I should be too afraid that it bring me misfortune. The truth is that while I learned many a thing this year, I… Read More »Proust Questionnaire Number Four
Today is Carrie’s birthday. Happy Birthday Carrie! Carrie got to spend a good portion of her birthday with her family and with me in Ledges. I will post some of those pictures in January. It will include a picture of the aftermath of my falling through some thin ice past… Read More »Happy Birthday and a Farewell