Took in a movie tonight - a 1989 classic - The 'Burbs with Tom Hanks in his younger years. I know that reviews are mixed, but Maurie and I love this stupid movie.
Tomorrow I travel to Engine 35 in the heart of Westwood, not far from home. After the tour, my flight leaves for NYC on Sunday morning. The details are still hazy as to my responsibilities, but I am fairly confident a good time is to be had.
I will miss home and my wife, but reunions are always to be wonderfully anticipated. Intentionally not taking a camera to Shiloh, just want to enjoy the time with both my eyes for once - remind you of a song?
Looks like we are in for another movie - About a Boy - a bit more our time, still a classic.
24 June 2005
20 June 2005
Thinking
Recently it was suggested by a new friend that I write more about the foundation of this small window into my world. While explaining to my new friend that I enjoy sitting and thinking, he inquired as to when I began the practice and where I like to think best. Finally, he wanted me to write about the expansive topic and here we find ourselves.
The sculpture is surely fitting. This is Rodin���'s The Thinker Statue, a piece he used to call The Poet ��� representing Dante. Perhaps you don���t know of Auguste or Dante, but most know The Thinker.
What other action evokes so much curiosity? For in the action itself is contained as much variety as stars in an infinite universe. If I tell you that I am thinking ��� you ask, ���What about?��� And here lies the source of contention. It is so, because everyone is thinking. It is the subject that separates us into our groupings.
In the days to come I will explore this thought with my own mind. For now I must practice my violin and prepare for Maurie to be home. Today has been very enjoyable.
The sculpture is surely fitting. This is Rodin���'s The Thinker Statue, a piece he used to call The Poet ��� representing Dante. Perhaps you don���t know of Auguste or Dante, but most know The Thinker.
What other action evokes so much curiosity? For in the action itself is contained as much variety as stars in an infinite universe. If I tell you that I am thinking ��� you ask, ���What about?��� And here lies the source of contention. It is so, because everyone is thinking. It is the subject that separates us into our groupings.
In the days to come I will explore this thought with my own mind. For now I must practice my violin and prepare for Maurie to be home. Today has been very enjoyable.
14 June 2005
home away
Good morning. I am home from a day with Engine 51 in College Hill. It is a small neighborhood with a small firehouse that is not very busy. We did have a fire - it was in a dumpster, 30 feet away from an apartment building - but a fire just the same.
I have recently decided to spend the last week of June at Shiloh in upstate New York. More details as they arrive. I will serve as the camp EMT for one week and then return to prepare for Mexico.
It seems I am busier than I thought I would be, but very happy with my situation in life.
More thoughtful writing in the days to come.
I have recently decided to spend the last week of June at Shiloh in upstate New York. More details as they arrive. I will serve as the camp EMT for one week and then return to prepare for Mexico.
It seems I am busier than I thought I would be, but very happy with my situation in life.
More thoughtful writing in the days to come.
09 June 2005
Violin
Over the short years of my life I have discovered many pursuits which bring me happiness. Save doing a backflip off a diving board, I will try most anything. In fact, I usually throw myself into activities with both feet and my wallet too.
The violin will not be the exception. Instead, it will be an anthropological study on learning and patience. Perhaps the research will never be read in the university classroom, but it will be ground breaking. For I have only limited experience with anthropology and I have never studied the violin.
It all begins friday in a small town in Indiana. I will be sure to write frequent updates to tell stories of progress.
side note:
Tomorrow I work 24 hours on Ambulance 9 - that means I will get no sleep.
The violin will not be the exception. Instead, it will be an anthropological study on learning and patience. Perhaps the research will never be read in the university classroom, but it will be ground breaking. For I have only limited experience with anthropology and I have never studied the violin.
It all begins friday in a small town in Indiana. I will be sure to write frequent updates to tell stories of progress.
side note:
Tomorrow I work 24 hours on Ambulance 9 - that means I will get no sleep.
08 June 2005
On Learning
Sitting this morning with Angela I was made to wonder how many around me have stopped learning. Angela is my would-be violin teacher but I am not so sure that I will be her student. Today we had something of an interview and she did not do very well. They say you can tell if you will hire someone right off - without a word. So it was with Angela.
I will hire someone to teach me. But I will work after our session is done and they will do the things I would do if I were not learning. They will read Whitman and take walks and nap in the afternoon. They will do this because they have learned and, better still, learned to teach.
Some have stopped learning and they think it better. The work is not as appealing as the knowing. For example, I want to play the violin. So, I must weigh the work of learning to play against the fruit of being able to play.
It is the same with any subject you choose. Should the work ever become too much for the joy, it is always abandoned; to continue is one definition of madness.
Praise God that Jesus came and taught simple men the eternal truths of existence. Perhaps more importantly, I thank God those individuals were not finished learning.
When did it become okay to quit learning?
I will hire someone to teach me. But I will work after our session is done and they will do the things I would do if I were not learning. They will read Whitman and take walks and nap in the afternoon. They will do this because they have learned and, better still, learned to teach.
Some have stopped learning and they think it better. The work is not as appealing as the knowing. For example, I want to play the violin. So, I must weigh the work of learning to play against the fruit of being able to play.
It is the same with any subject you choose. Should the work ever become too much for the joy, it is always abandoned; to continue is one definition of madness.
Praise God that Jesus came and taught simple men the eternal truths of existence. Perhaps more importantly, I thank God those individuals were not finished learning.
When did it become okay to quit learning?
07 June 2005
Not Ohio
Have you ever traveled?
I mean - left the language that you speak best so far behind that the people you are with don't even want to know how to speak it - traveling.
I mean - nothing looks even close to familiar and you think it's the greatest place on earth - traveling.
Don't be afraid to leave, because it is the leaving that causes our ignorance and our fears to die.
Travel to grow, to change and to experience. Have you ever traveled? And not just in your truck or on a train, but in your mind. Sit and Think about a place you imagine. Not Iraq or Canada - but a castle prepared for you.
Jesus said he was going away and that he would prepare a place for us. What does that mean? How does God prepare? Does he build; speak it into existence like the earth we know and travel on? What we will be has not yet been revealed, but in the resurrection lies hope entire.
Have you ever traveled?
I mean - left the language that you speak best so far behind that the people you are with don't even want to know how to speak it - traveling.
I mean - nothing looks even close to familiar and you think it's the greatest place on earth - traveling.
Don't be afraid to leave, because it is the leaving that causes our ignorance and our fears to die.
Travel to grow, to change and to experience. Have you ever traveled? And not just in your truck or on a train, but in your mind. Sit and Think about a place you imagine. Not Iraq or Canada - but a castle prepared for you.
Jesus said he was going away and that he would prepare a place for us. What does that mean? How does God prepare? Does he build; speak it into existence like the earth we know and travel on? What we will be has not yet been revealed, but in the resurrection lies hope entire.
Have you ever traveled?
06 June 2005
Kelly Week
I recently began work as a professional firefighter with the City of Cincinnati. As such, I work a fairly strange schedule. Every three weeks the schedule gets extremely weird and I am finding it particularly wonderful. Saturday (of last week) was a workday, but I will not return to work until Friday (of this week). It is a full five days off with no vacation, no holiday, no sick time. Just the gift we firemen like to call a Kelly Week. So a hearty thank you to all who went on before me. See you at the bank, Home Depot, and everywhere we go without lines, without traffic and without hassle. As my comrades on Truck 32 always say, “Eat ‘till you’re tired, sleep ‘till you’re hungry.” But, when the tones drop I run like mad to the Truck, praying that God will keep me safe.
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