Griff and Tracy have been hinting that my recent postings are perhaps a bit lacking in substance. In fact, on Friday night in Bridge Square, Griff actually threatened to bring back the pictures of the ducklings if I didn’t raise the bar a bit.
Well, I will continue to insist that Jerry Garcia was a genius, [...]
Based on the constructive criticism offered by Chamber of Commerce President David Ludescher (”Free men in a free market environment are the best judges of what kind of development people want.”), the Northfield Planning Commission is changing horses in mid-stream and basing the revisions in the Comprehensive Plan and Zoning Ordinances on the theories of [...]
April 30, 2007 – 11:41 pm
One of my regular morning table visitors at GBM told me about this poem. I thought I’d end Poetry Month with it.
The Woodcarver
Khing, the master carver, made a bell standOf precious wood. When it was finished,All who saw it were astounded. They said it must beThe work of spirits.The Prince of Lu said to the [...]
April 24, 2007 – 11:28 am
Since it’s National Poetry Month, it occurred to me to follow my daughter’s lead (and all the rest of the Northfielders who’ve been doing poetry this month) and do something poetic.
I’ve been doing consulting work the past few weeks at a company in Burnsville called ChartHouse Learning - the FISH! Philosophy company. Earlier this evening, [...]
Iowa’s Zach Johnson won the Masters golf tournament today. The DesMoines Register reported:
Johnson said with a cracking voice as he talked with CBS near the 18th green that the victory meant even more on Easter, as he credited Jesus and his late grandfather for helping him steel nerves.
Normally, when athletes give credit to God after [...]
I feel a little guilty about leaving Griff and Tracy to do Monday’s podcast without me…
…very little.
However, I thought I’d at least better blog something or they might take away my press pass that, at least according to Morgan, was going to get me backstage at a Shins concert…or something like that…
…so I took a [...]
We heard in church this morning that it is the fourth anniversary of the war in Iraq.
I knew that it had been going on for a long time but I didn’t realize that we were about to begin its fifth year. I was certainly aware that the war goes on and people continue to die [...]
February 17, 2007 – 11:30 pm
About three years ago my wife read the novel Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns and pointed out a passage that astounded me at the time.
Why? Because in all my years of church-going and sermon-listening, I’d never heard a more intelligent, inspiring, and helpful explanation of what Jesus meant when he said, “Ask and [...]
February 15, 2007 – 7:43 am
What’s wrong with these prayers?
“Let us pray for the safe return of our troops.”
“And now let us bow our heads in prayer and ask God for a bountiful harvest this year.”
“I’ll pray for your speedy recovery.”
They’re false and they’re destructive because they undermine the potential of a truer, more helpful way of praying.
I love this [...]
January 17, 2007 – 6:15 am
We at Locally Grown HQ have been talking about inviting guest bloggers to author occasional posts here. And then I noticed that Justin Stets was the guest Faith columnist in last weekend’s Northfield News, writing about his struggles after his sister took her life last year. (A tip-of-the-blog hat to the paper for giving a [...]
Locally Grown has been chosen to test an innovative project called Representative Journalism (RepJ). Bonnie Obremski is the RepJ reporter/journalist currently assigned to Northfield.
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