Literary Thursday: Hermit the Peanut

I hesitated while trying to decide whether to include my past writings on the blog. They don't have much to do with photography directly. Yet I believe that photographs and pieces of writing share a similarity in that while they aren't typically created in order to describe something about the creator, they often do.

Let's start at the beginning and then jump around a bit. This first one I wrote back in grade school:


Hermit the Peanut

Hermit the peanut
Lived in my pocket
We were the best of friends
Then one day I sat down
CRUNCH!!!

Link-me-up Wednesday: Sand Drawing

I can't remember who sent every valuable link to me, but this week's comes from Josh, one of the best grooms of all time:

Click Here and Be Amazed

Club Night

A few quick pictures from last night. It was "club" night at my Bible study. (We have a theme night once a month.) We were encouraged to interpret "club" however we wanted, so the evening included a golfer w/ club, a book club outfit, a club sandwich, club soda, club crackers, and various other club items. I brought my camera and pretended to be in the photo club. Lindi's house's basement blue room is one of the most interestingly decorated I have seen. It was Dave's birthday, so we celebrated with a birthday donut. It was Greg's unbirthday, so he was allowed to wear the hat as well. James, our home group leader, is the one pointing in two directions at once. His talents are even greater than the picture indicates.

Reflective Tuesday: Hypocrisy

I was thinking the other day about hypocrisy. I am not trying to defend it at all, even though my realization may seem so.

Everyone who believes that good is always better than evil is hypocritical, because no one chooses good over evil every time. For example, every good parent (if "good parent" means that the parent wants to teach his/her children to choose good over evil, even in areas where the parent struggles to choose good over evil) is hypocritical to a certain extent. Yet it is the parent's responsibility to teach his/her children to do what is good. It is also the parent's responsibility to try to choose good over evil in one's life, so as to not teach hypocritically, but the failure to do so does not supersede the responsibility to teach one's children to do what is good. In other words, it is sometimes better to teach hypocritically than not to teach at all. Thoughts?