un californien à paris

looks n listens

it's been awhile since i've added anything to my looks n listens list. jonny baker has pointed me to two worthy links. check these out: the LORD's prayer and the Confilict Map.

Why blog?

I want to ask the question: Why blog? The closest thing I've found to a satisfying answer comes from Frederick Buechner. He's talking about his autobiographical work, but his idea here contains the ingredients that I like to find in a blog :

I talk about my life anyway because if, on the one hand, hardly anything could be less important, on the other hand, hardly anything could be more important. My story is important not because it is mine, God knows, but because if I tell it anything like right, the chances are you will recognize that in many ways it is also yours. Maybe nothing is more important that we keep track, you and I, of these stories of who we are and where we have come from and the people we have met along the way because it is precisely through these stories in all their particularity, as I have long believed and often said that God makes himself known to each of us most powerfully and personally. If this is true, it means that to lose track of our stories is to be profoundly impoverished not only humanly but spiritually.

Telling Secrets pp. 29-30

phone blog

This is my desk where i usually am when i post something to my blog, but i've sent this pic from my cellphone & i'm nowhere near my study. cool!

NET NEWS WIRE: a test

i don't like to blog about blogging but i'm doing a little house cleaning, setting myself up to post from netnewswire software.

i'm going to try to post from my cell phone too.

as i mentioned on the old blog, i'll be back and bloggin about more important things on 9 January.