I really should blog here more. I really should. I spend a lot of my time these days shar­ing other people’s ideas. Most recently, on Friends Jour­nal you can see my inter­view with Jon Watts (co-conducted with Megan Kietzman-Nicklin). The three of us talked on and on for quite some time; it was only an inflex­i­ble train sched­ule that ended my participation.

The favorite part of talk­ing with Jon is his enthu­si­asm and his tal­ent for keep­ing his sights set on the long pic­ture (my favorite ques­tion was ask­ing why he started with a Quaker fig­ure so obscure even I had to look him up). It’s easy to get caught up in the bus­tle of dead­lines and to-do lists and to start to for­get why we’re doing this work as pro­fes­sional Quak­ers. There is a real­ity behind the word counts. As Friends, we are shar­ing the good news of 350+ years of spir­i­tual adven­tur­ing: obser­va­tions, strug­gles, and imperfect-but-genuine attempts to fol­low Inward Light of the Gospels.

My nine year old son Theo is blog­ging as a class assign­ment. I think they’ve been sup­posed to be writ­ing there for awhile but he’s really only got­ten the bug in the last few weeks. It’s a full-on Word­Press site, but with cer­tain restric­tions (most notably, posts only become pub­lic after the class­room teacher has had a chance to review and vet them). It’s cer­tain ironic to see one of my kids blog­ging more than me!

Enough blog­ging for today. Time to put the rest of the awake kids to bed. I’m going to try to have more reg­u­lar small posts so as to get back into the blog­ging habit. In the mean­time, I’m always active on my Tum­blr site (which shows up as the side­bar to the right). It’s the bucket for my inter­net curations–videos and links I find inter­est­ing, and my own pic­tures and miscellanea.

Of course, that is not the part of the story that moti­vates me. I am not seek­ing to be abused and betrayed, let down by my best friends and hunted by those in power. I may rec­og­nize the neces­sity of suf­fer­ing, but by no means do I seek it out. I think most of us grav­i­tate towards the tri­umphant vic­tory and joy of Jesus\’ resurrection

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Google threatens/promises to blur the line between real­ity and vir­tu­al­ity even more with their new glasses. Com­plete with gra­tu­itous ukelele subplot.

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Edward Tufte has a blog??? http://​www​.edwardtufte​.com/​b​b​o​a​r​d​/​q​-​a​n​d​-​a​-​n​e​w​-​a​n​s​w​e​r​s​?​t​o​p​i​c​_​i​d=1

Local geo geeks will rec­og­nize that the sharp line of the most recent map almost com­pletely coin­cides with the divide between coastal plain and pied­mont. #geog­ra­phy #blog

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Shrink­ing Mid­dle as Income Inequal­ity Rises
The share of Amer­i­can fam­i­lies liv­ing in middle-income neigh­bor­hoods has decreased, while the share in afflu­ent or poor neigh­bor­hoods has increased.

“Ani­mated Peo­ple” from Theo’s ani­ma­tion class this sum­mer (he’s in the yel­low and blue stripes) #blog #fam­ily #theo #video

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As I’ve used G+ more the last week, I’ve real­ized the ser­vice that feels the most redun­dant is my Tum­blr account (on the cus­tom domain http://​www​.quack​quack​.org). I started the Tum­blr because I wanted some­thing more “mine” than Face­book, a place where my pho­tos and links would live inde­pen­dently. But how silly–Tumblr is just a hosted ser­vice that I ulti­mately have no con­trol over.

So what’s dif­fer­ent with G+ and Face­book? I think it’s the sense that Google will archive things. It feels like every­thing dis­ap­pears after it ages off of the FB feed. #blog

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Mis­cel­lanea from Mar­tin Kelley

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