Comforting words

May 12th, 2008

looktwice

The Lord loveth a cheerful heart and a willing spirit

May 11th, 2008

tooold-1

How the tortoise beat the hare

May 10th, 2008

turtle

Free time

May 9th, 2008

In my town there are protesters called the women in black.

Every so often they will gather — two to seven or so of them — dressed in black to represent, I guess, mourning, in a small park across from the library.

They stand there silently, marking with their presence their opposition to whatever — the war, perhaps.

It’s a harmless way for them to spend their time, and it probably makes them feel good. Still, I can’t help but think, what a waste of woman-power. It seems to me that more good would be accomplished if they used those hours to actually help somebody.

The topic of how we, as a society, choose to spend our free time interests me.

For most of history, most people didn’t have free time to manage. Suddenly in the 20th Century, large numbers of people had large chunks of unstructured time. What to do?

Television provided an easy answer, and billions of hours of free time were gobbled up by westerns and sitcoms and variety shows.

Today, is the Internet the great new time-waster? Many would say yes. But it differs from TV in an important way.

Spend ten minutes and watch one of the most interesting and important talks, shy of General Conference, that I’ve come across.

I couldn’t get the video to embed, so here’s a link to it.

But, of course

May 9th, 2008

mormons-1

Now ya tell me

May 8th, 2008

useful

Awkward

May 7th, 2008

toast

It was funny the first 30 times

May 6th, 2008

samefirstname-1

Pipe dream

May 5th, 2008

tabernacleorgan-4

House thoughts

May 4th, 2008

house

The best wedding video ever

May 3rd, 2008

There is a danger in having been involved with musical theater. After that, heck, anything can happen.

For example, when you get married, the toast to the bride could turn into, well, a production number.

Don’t worry if you can’t read all the signs at the beginning, the good stuff starts to happen right after that.

The bride’s classic jaw-drop when more and more people jump up to sing and the moment when the groom gentle dabs away the bride’s tears have made Amy’s Song my favorite internet video.

Not to worry

May 2nd, 2008

pizza-1

Smart guy

May 1st, 2008

nephiswims

Door approach

April 30th, 2008

helovesmissionaries

And who says he isn’t?

April 29th, 2008

gentlemancaller

Missionary parents

April 28th, 2008

feedhim

On the way to the temple

April 27th, 2008

complications

Sweet!

April 26th, 2008

bicycle

Some things just can’t be helped

April 25th, 2008

attractive

For want of a comma

April 24th, 2008

When I was young, my [non-LDS] mother impressed upon me the need for careful punctuation by reciting this phrase:

“Good, by god, I’m going to Arkansas.”

A missing comma, she explained, gives this alternate version:

“Goodbye God, I’m going to Arkansas.”

This came to mind when I read that archaeologists, planning to exhume Parley P. Pratt and rebury him in Utah, could find no trace of him in his grave.

Parley had a great sense of humor. I’d like to think that he’s laughing about this.

Her missionary

April 23rd, 2008

hermissionary

Hey, where were ya?

April 22nd, 2008

egyptdude

Small comfort

April 21st, 2008

deathsdoor

And it came to pass they did

April 20th, 2008

bookofmormontoo

I Nephi 4:6

April 19th, 2008

bull

What’s that?

April 18th, 2008

onlyplainer1

If we knew what doors were thinking

April 17th, 2008

doorthoughts-1

Angelic sense of humor

April 16th, 2008

wings

Post-beating delirium

April 15th, 2008

post_beating_delirium

And they came to pass

April 15th, 2008

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