we need the Prince of Peace

I think a bunch of you are already planning on going to the Shalom House Festival tonight at 2007 Frankford Ave (6:30-8:30, btw-that’s before Lost starts).

Besides dinner and learning more about who Shalom House is (and what they do), there will be time to share experiences about violence.  I hope that you might feel okay [...]

re: definition

Great day with the family, working in the yard and the house.   I am constantly surprised by how wonderful it is to increase the definition of different areas.  When my yard bleeds into one blob, it feels chaotic to be out there.
I get something inside when there are boundaries in the garden.  Different areas for [...]

Lily the Happy Hooper

Lily is sick on the hula hoop. Here’s a little video that she and I whipped up on my macbook.

She and Helena have done a few household performances as The Happy Hoopers. What a name!  I feel like I’m on the Cosby Show!

psalters spring 09 update

this is a cross post with the new handsome Circle Venture blog.
For psalters Jay Beck & Scotty Krueger, creating a working Philadelphia headquarters has been a challenge.  They spent the better part of the last five years living on a converted veggie oil-powered school bus with the rest of psalters travelling around, leading worship, leading [...]

Law & Disorder in where?

Jenni got me watching this BBC special hosted by Louis Theroux called Law & Disorder in Philadelphia.  Below is the first of 6 parts that you can view on youtube, or on Jenni’s blog (link above).

I can’t help but feel a lot of things while watching.  It’s pretty good in the [...]

We wish for more snow

Paper snowflakes fall
Deliberate and beautiful
A hope for my kids.

sitting next to strangers

I love how funny people are.  Most Americans from the US have this thing about sitting next to strangers, especially when eating.  It’s not cool.  Sometimes I’ll go to a restaraunt in Center City with Martha and we’ll sit 6″ away from strangers, and it’s kind of weird for a minute.  You see what they [...]

look, mom, we’re on TV

My rather cool friend Josh Camerote has been working on a piece for Current TV on Circle of Hope for a few months.  The finished piece is now on their website and will be on their tv station at some point.
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chillaxin in the Mohawk Valley

I love Philadelphia.  I also love vacation, and it feels like it doesn’t happen all that often-we have a lot to do.  Wednesday night we rolled up to my mom’s house in the center of New York State,  Thurs morning drove to my aunt’s house outside of Buffalo, chilled for a few hours and then [...]

November in full swing

We actually got to play flag football last night.  The conditions were glorious (55 degrees, a little bit muddy) and we had 6 on 6.  So good.  I forgot to bring my camera so there are no action shots, although Timmy Grant got a permit for 5th and Master Friday nights until Feb or something.  [...]