Toppenhof was a peaceful town in North Vermont at the turn of the twenty ninth. Peaceful, but hard. Everyone got along or else they got shot. Those were the rules, sometimes unspoken, sometimes not. Veritable Brixton was a courier of sorts. People on the frontier needed things delivered and they'd pay good money to make …
Story Start—’Tired Old Man’
He walks alone through a small town on a bitter cold night in January. He marches slowly down the sidewalk, dragging one leg, pulling a luggage cart full of objects that look just as worn out and ready to die as he does. He wears a dingy wool cap over oily, lifeless, dirty blond and …
Tribes & Villages: 2 Kinds of Community
In my head I divide community into two kinds. Tribes A tribe is a community of people who meet together regularly and share their lives with each other, but who are spread out across neighborhoods and towns. This isn’t a Seth Godin kind of tribe, which would involve people around the world connected by some …
Noteworthy Podcasts
A few people have asked lately which podcasts I like to listen to. Here are my three favorites. Discussions by Patrick Dodson (new podcasts every so often) – Patrick lives in New Zealand and works with YWAM. He speaks all over the world, mostly to twentysomething Christians trying to figure out what to do with …
How do I know they’re the right one?
Oftentimes I think about advice that people should ask me for, but never do. These pleas for advisement, the ones they should ask me, I’ve always got really wise and life-changing answers for. The other advice questions, the ones they do ask me, I never really know how to answer. I just stand there dumb, …
I would get on a plane for yaaaaaa
Wendy, singing: I would take a grenade for yaaaaaa. I would get on a plane for yaaaaaa...
Nate: What did you say?
Wendy: I would get on a plane for ya?
Nate: Nope.
Wendy: Yeah. I would get on a plane for yaaaaaa..
I would get on a plane for ya
Wendy, singing: I would take a grenade for yaaaaaa. I would get on a plane for yaaaaaa... Nate: What did you say? Wendy: I would get on a plane for ya? Nate: Nope. Wendy: Yeah. I would get on a plane for yaaaaaa... Nate: Nope. Wendy: Oh. I would walk through the rain for yaaaaaa... …
This is #2 in a series of New England illustrated postcards I’m working on. This comes from a really amazing photo we took at Cape Neddick Lighthouse in Maine. I just traced over the photo, first lines and then colors.
Budget Travel, February 2011 and Afar, November/December 2010.
The way I pray
Father in Heaven May you be honored for who you are By all people Of every language, culture, and religion May your Kingdom continue to invade this world And all of human activity May things happen the way you want them to Here, just like they do in Heaven Give us today what we need …
