New Solutions peak oil newsletter #5 [260KB PDF]
Saturday 30 July, 02005
Thursday 28 July, 02005
Wednesday 27 July, 02005
Blessed are the peacemakers
My guess is that shalom cannot be realised in a geographically dislocated ‘community’.
Sunday 24 July, 02005
Friday 22 July, 02005
Wednesday 20 July, 02005
Tuesday 19 July, 02005
Cal Seerveld: The Halo of Human Imagination [15MB MP3, via Thinknet]
Optical illusion [via Bryan]
Tim Barnett on Graham Capill
Monday 18 July, 02005
Daniel Nichols on America, the greatest nation
Lambert Zuidervaart: Earth’s Lament [700KB PDF, via DJM]
Three Rs of community development [via Rance D]
Friday 15 July, 02005
Thursday 14 July, 02005
Half-hearted blog meme
cos Aaron sort of asked, here are the books are scattered around my bed:
The Post-Evangelical, Dave Tomlinson (lent by Cam H)
What is a Family?, Edith Schaeffer (given by David H)
Grigorii Rasputin, Alex de Jonge (stolen from Dad)
The Lunchtime Runner Vols I & II, by Cam Hockly (bought from Cam at LR2’s launch last Saturday night)
An NIV & an NASB NT & Psalms
Soul Shaper, Tony Jones (from the chaplaincy library)
The NZ Prayer Book (lent by the chaplain)
O and in the lounge from memory there’s:
The Act of Thinking by Derek Melser
What Saint Paul Really Said by NT Wright
an unpublished handwritten manuscript of a novel about suicide
Blue Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
Ooooo….!!!! by Hone Tuwhare
Penguin History of NZ by Michael King.
There are others but they’re slipping away.
um Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard (in fact I better read that again ASAP, dig this quote from last year) and Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig really blew my mind. So did Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card. EF Schumacher good. Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars trilogy make me want to get up in the morning. Wendell Berry is changing me. They all change me. I’m climbing Schild’s ladder, I suppose.
I own maybe 100 books. I’d like to get rid of the stupid ones and get all the good ones in circulation; they’re pointless on (my (rented)) shelves.
I was thinking babies probably start off thinking in emotions (like the bear in That Hideous Strength), then later in poetry, and then when they start to speak, prose.
Tony Robbins says happiness comes from within. You set your own parameters for happiness. Like you might have decided, “I will allow myself to be happy if I succeed in this business venture” and then the condition is met (or not) and you’re happy (or not). So once you realise that, he says, you can change the conditions, and access the boundless resource of happiness which is your birthright. I’m happy now because it’s my 9,342nd day alive. And that’s fuckn amazing! Ha!
O yeah, and Richard and I are going to Fat Freddys Drop Friday the 22nd and we’d love you to come along too.
Saturday 09 July, 02005
Saturday seminar &c.
Overheard in my favourite internet ‘cafe’:
OMG! They’ve got one, two, three, four seige cannons!
They also have this no smoking sign on the toilet door with “offenders will be trespassed” written on it that never fails to cheer me up.