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Quotable: On Work
Thanks to Joey Thames for pointing this out to the faculty today. (new paragraphing is mine, to make this easier to read) The habit of thinking about work as something one does to make money is so ingrained in us that we can scarcely imagine what a revolutionary change it would be to think about…
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More like my dad than I care to admit 😉
Last night as the snow fell and school kids everywhere rejoiced, I lazed on the couch and channel surfed through the weather report, an episode of Friends, and finally one of those infomercials on an off channel we usually ignore. TimeLife is selling a multiCD set of “Great Country Hits of the 50s and 60s.”…
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Book Review: Notes from the Tilt-A-Whirl (Nathan Wilson)
Notes from the Tilt-A-Whirl: Wide-Eyed Wonder in God’s Spoken World N. D. Wilson Thomas Nelson, 2009 Amazon.com (affiliate) Sometimes books, like the authors who write them, prove to be such a tangled mixture of wrong and right, beauty and deformity that I don’t know how to handle them. ND Wilson’s pithy, artistic revel through the…
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Thinking aloud: Higher Education Costs
Today I was reminded of the current fight between SC politicians/bureaucrats and the state’s universities. Despite slashing public funding for state colleges by nearly 50% over the past few years in the wake of a horrible budget crunch, the state government has declared that schools must keep their tuition increases in the neighborhood of 7%…
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Concert Report: Mumford & Sons (Sun); Chanticleer (Mon)
The calendar fairy handed me back-to-back musical experiences. “When it’s good, it’s really, really good!” Mumford & Sons, Cadillac Sky, King Charles — Buckhead Theatre, Atlanta, 11/7/10 Chanticleer — Brooks Theater, Clemson, 11/8/10 People underestimate how much power an audience has over our enjoyment at a concert. On the one hand, some shows need a…
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