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The chemistry of weddings

Ok ok.  I’ve been a little slack on the posting every day thing.  No excuses.  Onwards.
This last weekend I was at a wedding and I’m beginning to get good at these things now.  I reckon that within the next few I will actually start to get round to buying gifts and cards before the wedding. [...]

Perfectionism vs. Perfectionism

For some reason I’m not perfect.  Oh wait - that’s it, being perfect is impossible.
The textbook definition of perfectionism describes a “refusal to accept any standard short of perfection“.  Wikipedia quotes the more relaxed neo-Aristotelean Thomas Hurka:
This moral theory starts from an account of the good life, or the intrinsically desirable life. And it characterizes this life [...]

too. much. information.

One of the drawbacks of being at workshop is that there is, quite simply, far too much information. This weekend is Peace & Power. A look at activism and a few other things - but particularly within the context of shalom.
Shalom is one of those hebrew words that is extraordinarily difficult to understand. [...]

Jesus

I was surprised and saddened to find this when I looked on the internet:
I was surprised and saddened to find this when I looked in my Concise Oxford Dictionary (9th Edition, 1995):
Jesus .int. colloq. an exclamation of surprise, dismay, etc. [name of the founder of the Christian religion d. c. AD 30]
It seems that Jesus’ [...]

stop motion envy

Clearly this is pretty high budget - but it’s also utterly incredible and I’d love to make stuff like this. Honestly brilliant. Oh and the song is also lovely.