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It’s a perfect late-spring day in Seattle: Mid-70s, breezy, bright.
Wandering today, I’ve already enjoyed a conversation with Kristin Wilhite at my favorite coffee stand, The Grinder, and a Thomas Merton reading on contemplation with my Seattle Pacific University coworkers. In a few hours, we’ll be celebrating some coworkers’ birthdays, but first, I’m wandering over to the offices of Image journal to deliver a book to Julie Mullins, who is preparing this summer’s Glen Workshop, the week-long arts conference in Santa Fe, New Mexico… the most exciting week of my year.
In the meantime, here are a few highlights of my browsing…
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A whole new region of David Lynch-land is open for business: The Interview Project. What a promising beginning. I was reminded of this quote:
“If we are to love our neighbors, before doing anything else we must see our neighbors. With our imagination as well as our eyes, that is to say like artists, we must see not just their faces but the life behind and within their faces. Here it is love that is the frame we see them in.”
— Frederick Buechner (Whistling in the Dark: An ABC Theologized)
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In other news, The Onion has posted an article that will enrage Christians everywhere… if they don’t notice that this satirical piece actually serves to remind us what Christ was really like, and what he has really done.
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I’m happy to find this 1966 commercial online.
The commercial stars one of the many Jim Henson characters who are currently on exhibit at the Jim Henson’s Fantastic World exhibit in downtown Seattle’s Experience Music Project. It’s a wonderful exhibit. When I meandered happily through on Saturday morning, I had the privilege of meeting Jim’s daughter Heather in person. What a thrill. (I came home with a particularly detailed and interesting souvenir…)
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I’m happy to see that an abridged version of my review of Summer Hours was posted today at Image.
UNTIL NEXT TIME:
Tonight, I’m going to chain myself to my desk until I’ve revised another two chapters of Raven’s Ladder. I’m on Chapter Nine of the revisions, and it’s going very well. This story is my favorite of the the series so far, but I’m trying to trim it down to a size that will allow you to carry the book around in your backpack… instead of on a forklift.
June 3rd, 2009 at 9:29 pm
As a Star Wars fan, you may enjoy this… not into video games myself, but I always wanted to see a massive lightsaber battle (the Jedi charge in “Clones” was close, but not quite enough). Definitely hit “HQ”:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sainKIZ8vI
June 15th, 2009 at 8:11 am
I, for one, would be interested in the “forklift” version of your books. I have a feeling you know much more about the characters that your readers would like to know also. I liked Auralia’s Colors, but I LOVED Cyndere’s Midnight.