Lunch 2.0; the Genesis Photo Agency

Spent yesterday afternoon with good friend Gary Fong, former S.F. Chronicle Executive Graphics Editor. Thanks to me looking at a Google Map upside down (this one had South at the top for some reason) we spent an hour finding the Lunch 2.0 venue, during which we talked about Gary’s current project, a photo agency called [...]

Remy, of ‘Ratatouille’ fame arrives

Last night we opened a package at dinner: it contained a votive candle, and Remy, the protagonist of Pixar’s delightful movie ‘Ratatouille.’  Only one person in the universe could have sent such a missive: my friend, retired priest David Perry.
David’s ministry to me has been one of the things that continue to convince me that [...]

My new heart

My new heart: sweet spouse Linda gave me and dear friend, priest David Perry new hearts when we met for lunch near UCSF Cancer Center Wednesday. She then retreated to a table across the room so I could talk to David: I wanted his counsel on forgiveness, and letting go of a poisoned situation. David’s [...]

Bush and Benedict

President Bush met with Pope Benedict XVI at the Vatican yesterday. While Benedict brought up the topic of Iraq, he seemed to be concerned with the place of Christians in Iraq, according to the NY Times report. The topic of ‘unjust war’ apparently did not come up.
Hard to believe men of faith, Christians, would not [...]

At Taizé

Scene Friday night as we left the service at the Taizé Commaunité with friends David and Steve Perry last night. These services, led by the Taizé Freres, are world famous for their simplicity and great joy.
In fact I have made a brief recording of the Taizé chants: but all the audio tools I downloaded yesterday [...]

Jesus, Benedict and Le Figaro

When in France, I usually try to read a morning daily to help improve my French. This morning’s Le Figaro has a Litéraire supplement in which 3 French intellectuals respond to Pope Benedict’s just-published 430-page essay on Jesus. It’s a bit tough going: I need a better French-English dictionary to get through these essaies. I’m [...]

Watering

Cassie and I walked out to meet Linda on the return from her long Saturday Big Dish jog, getting in our 1.5 miles in the process. Back home we made breakfast - buttermilk blueberry pancakes (bad carbs, but they were so good for the reu-ion breakfast last weekend), with chicken-apple sausage and fruit.
Then it was [...]

Chaos Theology, redux

So tonight, I worked later than has been usual (7 hours of meetings today). Sweet spouse Linda met me at the train, took me home for a quick dinner and nap, and then dropped me off for the second lecture in the Science and Faith series at Trinity Episcopal Church, featuring Episcopal priest, NASA consulting [...]

Chaos Theology

We made it to last night’s lecture on science and faith, offered by Dr. Sjoerd Bonting, an Episcopal priest and NASA consulting scientist, who offered (what else) a PowerPoint preso (pretty good one). Dr. Bonting is very interesred in chaos theory, and extends his interest philosophically and theologically, to include the fact that nearly every [...]

Faith at 5 PM

I am dualistic (kind of ‘quantum’) on the topics of science and faith. I have often responded to secular and atheist opinions on faith by asking the question about faith communities - where else would they come from? They’re not ’support groups’ per se: there’s a depth and commitment I’ve seen nowhere else. Neil Stephenson [...]

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