RealityRevision

About a month n' half later and I still smoke pipes sometimes

Things do not look very differently from the other side. I'm moved into the big city of brotherly love, I have a new job, a new apartment, a new roommate, and even a new bike. These last two weeks I have had a lot of firsts and learned quite a bit.

I finally am completely finished unpacking, organizing and cleaning. It's a good feeling.

Now that moving and getting a job is behind me, the future looks wide open. I have some very specific directions I am considering. I am not quite at a point where want to write about them, but I'm excited.

I plan to start writing here more often...

P.S. If you're ever passing through or need a place to stay, in Philadelphia, our door is open.

I smoke pipes sometimes...

So yes, I do smoke pipes sometimes. I do not really have much to say and I know this blog has been quiet for a while, so I thought I'd do a little update.

There are some big things going right now.

The biggest being, I've decided to move to Philly this December, which involves finding another job and moving in with my friend Justin. I do not really have a grand plan, I know I need a job to pay for rent and food, but other than that...well we'll see what happens.

I smoke pipes. I think I mentioned this, but just in case you missed it. If your wondering the giant pipe in the picture is one a scored on ebay from a Texan, which proves that everything is big in Texas, although the pipe itself (a Ropp Deluxe 685) was made in France.

The other bigger thing going on presently is I launched Dean Martin Web Design. So yes, I make websites. I call myself a part time freelance web design guy and I am looking for work. So there is my shameless plug.

here and humanity

it's a small crowd you know
it's the friends, strangers, and family
breathing sense and non-sense it to your life
the people that know you the best and those that don't
the brilliantly bright moon and the texture of grass beneath your bare feet

its a hopeful world we hear
keeps the embers glowing
keeps our belief in god alive
though there are days I loss all belief
however for all practical reasons I may be an atheist

searching for the rhythm in everything
throwing the ceiling back and singing to the sky
I'm content here, though I'm passing through
the thoughts in my mind and a bit of happiness in my eyes
as we experience the miracle of here and humanity

graphic design and manufacturing desire

I've been toying around with the idea of graphic / web design, for a while now. I have a few apprehensions, but this mainly. As a graphic / web designer it is very likely that I'd end up doing at least some work in the advertising field. Here is where, I get nervous, when designing an ad I would be required to orchestrate manipulate a message in subtle ways in order to manufacture desire within it's viewers (I know this not always the case, but look the advertising you see everyday...I do not think you could disagree.)...and I am not ok with that.

Thoughts listening to SOF

I was recently listening to Speaking of Faith and Krista Tippett was talking to Ellen Davis, a Biblical scholar. This was an excellent cast, something that stuck with me (beside the need to read Wendell Berry) was this scripture.

Genesis 1:

21. God created the great sea monsters and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind; and God saw that it was good.
22. God blessed them, saying, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth."

26. Then God said, "Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth."
27. God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.
28. God blessed them; and God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth."

Now Ellen Davis pointed out something that I had never noticed before. In verse 22 God gives the animals a blessing and a command, "be fruitful". It was the exact same blessing and "be fruitful" command that we received in verse 28. She suggested that this overlooked detail, should influence the way we read and understand the later part of verse 28, "rule over the..."

I'm not saying obviously that animals are our equals. The essence of this that intrigued me was that the animals were given a almost the same blessing we were before we were even created. Seeing this detail gives me a renewed respect, responsibility and appreciation for this creation that I'm a part of.