Saturday, November 23

Author walljm

I have been writing on the web since 2000. I am a christian , a photographer, an occasional poet, a recovering dreamer, an occasional philosopher, a software developer, an autodidact, and I resemble the INFP personality type.

flee the oppressive warmth of yellow hot and close, a room full of ichor bright lights, harsh, glaring down and ease into twilight. close your eyes in the half light a cool expanse, an oasis of calm and feel the murmur of solitude alone in a quiet room.

I remember waking up, and in the morning hours Walking to my mothers room, to see her still in bed Her bible propped up on one knee, her head was bowed in prayer Seeking God to start the day, before the morning fled

What Purpose hath foul Language? < < Wit or Wisdom I wrote a rather lengthy opinion of the use of pejoratives, expletives, exclamatory words, and euphemisms.

Marginal Revolution: Blogging as self-experimentation “Blogging makes us more oriented toward an intellectual bottom line, more interested in the directly empirical, more tolerant of human differences, more analytical in the course of daily life, more interested in people who are interesting, and less patient with Continental philosophy.”

To Helvetica and Back | FontShop News | February 2007 For the typophilies and those of us who occasionally aspire to typophilness

Jeremy Dean | PsyBlog | Psychology Blog: Why Career Planning Is Time Wasted n reality, people frequently don’t know what they want and psychology has proved it. That’s why career planning, or at the very least just deciding what you’re going to do next, is so unpleasant.

Telling someone something, in some way alters the nature of the thing being told. This is especially true of personal hopes and dreams. Partially, the telling alters the fact by the way the person responds to the hearing. Hopes and dreams, like the smallest of particles, cannot be viewed without the viewing affecting them. You can only manage the change.

I was up in Michigan this past weekend helping with the Pendgragon Movie. I’d like to say more, and I may update this post later, but I wanted to refer you to Peter Serven’s post on the trip, replete with photos. I’ve been given permission to release some of the photographs I have taken on the two shoots I’ve been on, and hope to start doing that in the next few days. Til then, Peter’s site will need to do.

Foreign Policy: Seven Questions: The International Breast Milk Project “Many newborns throughout the developing world are undernourished because they are not breastfed during their first few months of life. Often their mothers have passed away or are HIV-positive. But last year, a first-time mother from America’s Midwest decided to send her excess breast milk to Africa. FP spoke with the 29-year-old about her unlikely quest, which has since turned into an international project.”

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