“I feel rather strongly that it is not fear of death that prevents most people from achieving everything they want in life, but rather fear of looking ridiculous.”
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Short blog posts, journal entries, and random thoughts. Topics include a mix of personal and the world at large.
God's glory and power
“The creation of man whom God in his foreknowledge knew doomed to sin was the awful index of God’s omnipotence. For it would have been a thing of trifling and contemptible ease for Perfection to create mere perfection. To do so would, to speak truth, be not creation but extension. Separateness is identity and the only way for God to create, truly create, man was to make him separate from God himself, and to be separate from God is to be sinful. The creation of evil is therefore the index of God’s glory and his power. That had to be so that the creation of good might be the index of man’s glory and power - But by God’s help. By His help and in his wisdom”
Wanderlusting
Right, I've largely recovered from my brief cold, so it's just a matter of getting back into the regularly scheduled programming. Not having worked out at all the entire week has left me with palpable withdrawal symptoms. Looking forward to a hardy run round the lake this Sunday.
Been posting lots of pictures from my venture up north a couple of week ago, and they will only keep on rolling as I edit them. I'm really happy with the photographs, and post-processing them in the newly acquired Lightroom 5 has been an absolutely joy. The sort of manipulations possible in that program is practically cheating.
Also, I've been wanderlusting pretty bad post that trip. Sometimes you just want to get up and go, to see new things. Everyday I'm setting the foundation to allow me to do exactly that, so am fervently looking forward to the next opportunity. Got a few trips lined up for June and August, though always on the lookout to add more dates.
Climate control is awesome
In what was a tremendous Mother's Day weekend for me got bookended by a terrible case of the sore throat sickness. Obviously, it hasn't been much fun these couple of days. It's definitely passing out though so hopefully I'll be alright by the latter half of this week.
Temperature has returned to the 90s here in San Francisco once again, which can only be described as torture. At least its forecasted that during the nighttime the mercury will come back down to sane levels, so at the very least I don't have to lie in my own sweat just to get a decent sleep going. Because you're delirious if you think we got air-con here in San Francisco.
Air-con in the car though, is very nice indeed. Who cares if it degrades my car's already horrendous gas mileage. First world solution to nature's problem, yo. I bet there's a huge subset of people who couldn't care less about climate change because they're so used to man-made climate control in cars, building, and homes.
Vulnerability
“The harder we press on a violin string, the less we can feel it. The louder we play, the less we hear.... If I “try” to play, I fail; if I race, I trip. The only road to strength is vulnerability”
RIP Leonard Nimoy
“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory. ”
Time is eternity
“Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.”