Of Chaos and Order - Ship's Log

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!

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.

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.

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.

Amie’s going on a Caribbean cruise!

Turns out all that digging as a child has paid off in adulthood.

Amie and I had an amazing lunch at Mexico Tipico for my birthday, then a special dinner at my favorite restaurant, Skogen Kitchen, for dinner.

Today I had a joyful time discussing Amie and I’s goals and desires for our boy’s spiritual formation with a couple leaders at Westminster.

Royal woke with croup at 11:00 last night.

Let’s talk about books shall we?

It’d been so long since I’d written anything on the log that I didn’t realize that my publishing system was broken.

Is it already almost April?!

Last Monday’s leader’s group was amazing.

Amie talked the boys out of the Christmas train this year ($180 is too much for something we only kinda enjoy) and instead offered to stay at a hotel with a pool.

A friend recently joked that we were in the process of planting a Vineyard church in Rapid City.