sacred journeys

Well, if you thought the writers strike was nasty, the potential actors strike might even get nastier, as different actors unions are starting to fight with themselves already…
The bitter weekend divorce between two actors unions in upcoming contract talks with Hollywood producers mirrors a scene from a daytime soap opera — and casts stars from […]

So my friend Ed took me out to this fabulous Japanese restaurant in Koreatown earlier this week.
Someday, they will make a camera on phones that do not take absolute junk photos, but until they do — this is as good as it gets…

Even though it is hard to tell, the food came around on a […]

We don’t live in south Los Angeles, but every time you drive to LAX, or go past downtown, or take the Metro to Long Beach — you are going through, or close to south-central (even though that is not the politically correct way to call south LA these days).
Anyway, read this article today in […]

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried.
–G.K. Chesterton

So driving around, and took a couple of shots of the economically depressed neighborhood….

Then Caleb and I are stopped at a light, and what drives by — but a Ferrari….

The juxtaposition of the scenes — was kind of crazy & funny at the same time. Some of the apartments around Kairos have many people […]

“Sixteen Candles,” “Pretty in Pink,” “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” and “The Breakfast Club,”
okay, if you are not my age (lets just say over 30 ) — you probably don’t remember them. Today, when I was giving latimes.com my quick perusal, I came across this article….
John Hughes’ imprint remains. He’s still revered in […]

So, I finally got around to surfing in the Pacific. It was unbelievably cold, and unbelievably fun. However, not sure you could call what I was doing — surfing. I laid on top of the surfboard a lot and got crushed by a couple of waves. However, I am crazy enough to go back out […]

A fantastic article in First Things with Pastor Tim Keller regarding his book ‘A Reason for God’

One long quote from the article:
I don’t mention it in [The Reason for God], but I think there are always doubts that, if you come to grips with them—I think there’s doubts that you have, that you […]

…sorry for the absence. Voxtropolis has had major issues / upgrades / etc. lately, and every time I have tried to log on to post something this past week, I have been unable to….. arghhhhhh.
Anyway, a St. Patrick’s Day prayer for you ( a little late)
Peace between neighbors
Peace between kindred
Peace between lovers,
In the […]

I am “one who is on the way, though not necessarily very far along it, and who has at least some dim and half-baked idea of Who to thank” -Frederick Buechner