Month: December 2005
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Christmas gifts and letters
Practices take a long time to form, or break and so we are headed on the track of transforming the way we celebrate our savior’s birth.One thing we did this year, an idea I got from a co-worker, was to write each other a letter reflecting on our relationship over the past year…. Those reflections…
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on our way back home
It makes it hard to return home each time, because we feel those important relationships becoming thinner and thinner and we wish that they could be different.I remember when we first moved here to LA, that we had those high hopes of keeping in touch with everyone, everyone friend and family member with no exception….…
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home for christmas
Emily and I are staying in LA for Christmas this year, mainly because we couldn’t purchase tickets for before Christmas due to Emily’s work schedule and the price of tickets going out of LA the night before the sleigh touches down. At first glance this could be a sad occasion, and of course on the…
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christmas a couple days early
Emily bought for me Ecto today – a web-blog publishing platform fully equipped to keep me busy working on posts, and glued to the blue screen of my ibook. Currently I am trying to figure out the whole badge process – which typically I would be opposed to, I am not much for advertising, but…
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christmas and Quakers
Street Corner Society offers a very thoughtful look into Quaker practices concerning the holidays. This feeds into and also challenges what I said yesterday.