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  • Light & Shadow

    This was my ‘homework’ assignment for the first session of the course I’m doing. They’re all phone pictures, but I’m quite pleased with them as a set. But really I’m posting these as an experiment to see how galleries work.

  • Hymn of the day

    One of the habits from my old blog that I’m planning to bring here is the posting of a hymn, usually by Charles Wesley, each Sunday. Here’s one for Advent Sunday. Come, thou long-expected Jesus, born to set thy people free; from our fears and sins release us, let us find our rest in thee.…

  • An Advent Address

    (Based on Mark 13: 24-37) At the end of the film Terminator there is a scene in which the heroine, Sarah Connor, is making her escape into the wilderness. She has destroyed the android sent from the future to kill her, but still she knows that the future of the world is bleak. Her thoughts…

  • The Expressive Camera

    I am doing a short photography course called ‘The Expressive Camera’. We are exploring the use of photography in narrative and storytelling. The assignment following our first session was to come up with 5 images on the theme ‘Light & Shadow’. Here’s one of mine.

  • Keeping things in perspective

    I first blogged this in November 2003. It comes originally from The Bruderhof A professor stood before his philosophy class and had some items in front of him. When the class began, wordlessly, he picked up a very large and empty mayonnaise jar and proceeded to fill it with golf balls. He then asked the…

  • Thoughts on Mastodon

    Good stuff from Seth’s blog It’s inconvenient. You can’t get started in ten seconds. This leads to less initial stickiness. It means that the people who get through the learning curve are more likely to be committed and perhaps generous. In the early days of email, of Compuserve, of AOL, of the web, of just…

  • If I could turn back time

    I was a blogger for a long time. You could say that I was blogging before I knew what blogging was. In the last couple of years of the 1990s I had acquired a bit of webspace and was handcoding an HTML page with updates perhaps 2 or 3 times a week, sharing random thoughts…

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  • Test 2

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