My writing has taken various forms through the years, from years of regular blogging (which are memorialized here, not all of which I stand by!) to my more recent infrequent posts capturing my sermons & creative writing. Thanks for visiting; please comment and join the conversation.
Ok, I need some feedback on this poem, especially from Vancouverites... I'm presenting it as part of a project this weekend. This project is what I've been so busy with that I haven't been able to blog... along with the exam I'm writing tomorrow morning. Pray for me! More to come soon...
The rain has been pretty constant this month.I watched the weather tonight, and it is somehow three degrees warmer in Saskatoon right now than it is in Vancouver.There is something seriously wrong here.I wouldn’t mind so much if rain didn’t make me so COLD.You get wet, and then you’re in buildings that aren’t built for keeping people warm, so you end up colder than in Saskatoon, where you’re only cold for the five seconds it takes to get from the car to the house.Most people are depressed here.Some are very skilled at handling the situation.I saw a lady hold her umbrella between her chin and her shoulder, still keeping her dry as she used both hands to find her bus pass in her purse.Incredible...
I’ve been thinking about all the different streams of personality that make us who we are.Passions, interests, gifts, experiences, all running alongside each other, coming out in different ways.I like to picture myself on a rubber dingy in one of those lazy rivers at a waterpark, where there is a slow current carrying me along.(I remember my dad losing his keys in one of these lazy rivers when I was young…)There’s also several other little rivers parallel to mine, some with faster currents, some moving at a much slower rate...
I picked up the program change form today... soon I will be Regent's newest MDiv student!...
Hey everyone, sorry it’s been so long.I’ve been doing a lot of soul-searching and journaling in the last couple of weeks, and it has sapped all of my writing strength.I haven’t even written any poems in the last little while, which is rather scary, because I have a project to turn in about a month from now, and only a couple of poems to my name… it’s time to downsize to haiku…
Snowfall, Nov. 27th 2006
Unsummoned,
the first wet flakes
drifted lazily through streetlight glow,
finding their rest on green hedges,
I took this picture this afternoon… I assume you heard about the plane crash on the beach in Vancouver? Just kidding. This is actually the set of a movie being filmed here – they were filming on a street three blocks from my house all last week, and then they moved to this elaborate plane wreck set. It’s a movie called “Passengers,” starring Anne Hathaway as a grief counselor for the survivors of this crash. Somehow, I can’t really picture Anne Hathaway as a grief counselor, but maybe it’s just me and my memories of “Ella Enchanted” and “Princess Diaries.” Granted, I didn’t see her more serious role in “Brokeback.” Go see the movie in 2008 to see if she pulls it off...
