Of Chaos and Order

For those curious, here’s how I answer existential questions.

Our family climbed to the top of the Crazy Horse Memorial for the 40th anniversary of the Volksmarch!

I’ve launched the professional face of my website!

The decline motif has been a powerful tool in the rise of the Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement.

We remain grateful for the Evanston Vineyard, though we live far away.

Our family visited my grandparents last week.

I’ve begun two theology courses in preparation for starting a PhD cohort this fall.

My involvement with AI has been exponentially growing.

I’ve been fasting from caffeine and Valheim during Lent.

We’ve been sick since last week (though it feels like it’s been several weeks).

In the past week I’ve had the joy of reading the Bible with three people!

Unless I can’t get an enrollment exemption, it’s looking likely that I’ll begin a DMM PhD program this Fall!

I’ve heard from Dr.

We signed Graham for violin practice this year.

For Matrix of Leadership time tonight, we each performed a lip sync of a favorite song.

I’ve been exploring what it will take to start a PhD since last Fall.

The boys and I had President’s Day off together.

I’ve been so proud of Graham for persisting in his violin practice.

Our next Wii game, LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga, came in yesterday.

Amie turned me on to the Warriors album.

Slavery in [the United States] was not merely an unfortunate thing that happened to black people.

Before the modern era, one of the earliest Americans to take up the idea of caste was the antebellum abolitionist and U.S. senator Charles Sumner as he fought against segregation in the North.

Caste and race are neither synonymous nor mutually exclusive.

Slavery made the enslavers among the richest people in the world, granting them “the ability to turn a person into cash at the shortest possible notice.”

Somewhere in the journey [immigration], Europeans became something they had never been or needed to be before… “No one was white before he/she came to America,” James Baldwin once said.

The creation of a caste system was a process of testing the bounds of human categories and not the result of a single edict.

It was in 1913 that a prominent southern educator, Thomas Pearce Bailey, took it upon himself to assemble what he called the racial creed of the South.

LLM chats are replacing my web search usage.

My reading for this Chicago trip has been Isabel Wilkerson’s Caste: The Origins of our Discontents.

I’ve been in Chicago this week at the Performance Trust Fall event.

Graham caught an enormous rainbow trout fishing off the bridge at Paktola reservoir yesterday morning.

Graham is loving school.

Amie and I finished “Catcher in the Rye” last night.

I have big news.

Amie and I took a blitz trip to Denver for a Regina Spektor concert.

Since my last log we’ve all been to Chicago for a week and to Rimrock Family Camp.

We’re in prep mode for our trip to De Smet and Sioux Falls.

While we live in the Black Hills, I can’t get enough of sights like these!

Ours is a journey towards maturity, towards wholeness.

I’ve agreed to join a summer DnD campaign with my neighbor Dominic Cossi and his family!

Graham, Royal and I visited a local bike shop to explore buying a new bike for Graham.

I’ve been reading the Silverlight Archive series by Brandon Sanderson.

Jerome Berryman illuminates the creative process in his book, “Godly Play: An Imaginative Approach to Religious Education”.

I’ve been so intimidated at the prospect of teaching my children about Jesus and the Bible.

My mom (or Memaw to the boys) stayed with us over Spring Break!

My mom’s visiting over the boy’s Sprung Break.

Royal didn’t want to leave my office, so he kept his fingers inside in protest 🙄

Our ceiling anchor continues to pay off - look at those acrobatics!

I’ve been reading Jerome Berryman’s “Godly Play: An Imaginative Approach to Religious Education.”

I’ve done something terrible today.