May, 2006

• I’m a little late for the “ping homily this month](http://9rules.com/en/browse/featured/archive/96/, but it’s something I wanted to write anyway. I was thinking about aesthetics recently in general and beauty is a big part of that. Aesthetics, officially, is the philosophy and study of beauty. John Keats once said, “Beauty is truth, truth beauty – that is [...]

  Ping Homily: Beauty

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  Photography

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  Happy Memorial Day Weekend!

• This took me a minute to get. I saw this in my stats as a link people were hitting on my site. I thought, “What? Is that a new kind of spam?” Nope. Just me in Spanish. Someone was viewing the Spanish translated version of my site so Estándares para la vida means Standards for [...]

  Estándares para la vida

• Jonathan Renich is a college student who has started a project called eduRelief to raise money for education. Having a mother who teaches 5th grade to lower income kids, many of whose parents are not involved in their education I know the need for a good education. Of course for me it was because my [...]

  Jonathan Renich, Edurelief

• !(shadow-l)/images/archives/218.png! Now this is a wild small world. A few years ago I sang with the worship team at Maranatha Chapel in San Diego under “John Wickham](http://www.maranathachapel.org/about/staff_directory/john_wickham.html of “The Way](http://tinyurl.com/ef4e7. His son Philip often sang too. In fact, after I moved to Indiana I kept watching the services online and I often saw him leading [...]

  Little Philip Wickham is now Big Phil

• There has been some “recent discussion](http://wisdump.com/notes/redesigning-give-your-old-template-to-the-masses/ lately (“maybe it’s been going on longer](http://avalonstar.com/2006/05/17/this-is-not-a-wordpress-theme/) about releasing an old “template” once you’re done using it following a redesign. I’ve thought about this myself and though there are some pros, the cons for me are heavy enough that I just don’t want to get started down that road. [...]

  You are not a template

• My daughter has this pop-up book with a jungle theme which I thought would be great for a color scheme. I’m a really neutral color lover, always dressing in soft blues, greens and browns, and would drink a Black & Tan if I drank. I often find it difficult working with bright colors, which also [...]

  Color Scheme: Jungle Book

• Is there such a thing? Stacy Harp posted an article from the NY Times and I’m so glad to see it. There are so many people today who believe that divorce can be accomplished with little or no damage done to the children. As a product of a quiet divorce and a witness to many [...]

  Quiet Divorce

• In his article “Any Ol’ Worldview Won’t Do,” Chuck Colson (Jubilee Extra, May 1996) argues that a major problem with Christians is their inability to carry over their beliefs about morals and ethics, marriage particularly, into their everyday lives. He suggests that these Christians might as well be secularists themselves for all the good their [...]

  Pegs to Hang Truth On

• Inspired by “Bryan’s post](http://avalonstar.com/2006/05/17/this-is-not-a-wordpress-theme/ and “Matt’s anwswer](http://www.mattbrett.com/faq in his FAQ, I’m going to answer this question publicly so there’s no confusion.

  In the design community you’ll find some nice designers who occasionally share some source code or a blog theme here and there. These people are going way out of their way in doing that and [...]

  Can I use your theme?

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