Unpacking Seeing Purple

The surprises these characters keeping springing on me a truly dizzying. The first title for this passage was supposed to be “On the Road.” I wanted the party to have a conversation about Walter’s “summons” as they travelled to Meadow Run and end the segment with the introduction of Talum. I even created a character…

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Fiction Tuesday – Seeing Purple

“Walter, what?” “Meddle, not now. Not here.” Both Walter and Ama’s faces had become white, and several people who passed Walter noticed the chill near their table, drawing confused looks. He then pointed at Jeremy, but shifted his eyes down toward the evertorch on their table. “And as for you, I don’t know what you…

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What difference?

In Williamsburg there is a bridge which begins the path from the Visitor’s Center to the Historic area. Embedded on this bridge are a series of plaques. Heading into the Historic Area the plaques show some of the fundamental differences between the 21st and 17th Centuries. On the way back to the Visitor’s Center the…

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Difficult Conversations

Lately I’ve been struggling with a frustrating problem. There are quite a few times when I have absolutely no idea how to speak with Christians. Given my vocation this might seem like a strange issue. It’s not even a specific type Christian which is causing my communication struggles. When “Christ-followers” rail against “chuchianity” I have…

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Waning Crescent

I took this image of the Moon last week and posted it on Flickr, but I wanted to make sure to share it here as well. It’s a waning crescent, which I took on a manual setting around 5:45AM. I took this image with my 300mm lens at full extension with ISO set to 125…

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Hello Weirdness

Our family does the traditional “first day of school” pose each year. I think it’s a form of self-torture for parents, who remember their kids as the cute munchkins they sent off to first grade long after they’ve become grumpy teens, but we do it anyway. It’s a compulsion. My daughter always gets her picture…

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