So I was cleaning the car out today, in preparation for this weekend's exodus to South Carolinia-based transhemispheric nuptials ( Read more... )

Yesterday evening, Jac and I went to Willimantic's 3rd Thursday Street Festival - the 3rd Thursday of the month, all through summer and fall, the town closes Main Street to traffic along much of its length, and there is music, food, vendors, and so forth. It was really nice, and I got some pictures that pleased me and represented a lot about the ( Read more... )

So, Jac and I have made it safely to Connecticut, and are enjoying our third full day here. Some rambling, disconnected impressions of things thus far:

- The U-Haul in Tuscaloosa is so bad at what they do that other U-Haul stores make fun of them and charge them fees for incompetence. The U-Haul store where we deposited our truck up here was ( Read more... )

So I'm moving to Connecticut. Jac (the Lady) was accepted to her PhD program at University of Connecticut (in Storrs, CT) and we have sold her house. By July 12th, I will be keeping the house in CT while she finishes a last few weeks of work down here ( Read more... )

Five years ago today, I was sitting in the outer antechamber of a neurosurgical unit. I had come here, to Loyola University in the outskirts of Chicago, to try an experimental procedure for treating my otherwise degenerating OCD.

Where it had all come to was me, fairly early in the morning, sitting in a chair in this calmingly green-tiled ( Read more... )

Picture album from Taiwan:

http://picasaweb.google.com/jwhitehorn

Now with captions and everything. Look, comment, laugh, etc.

This entry is a personal response to the question of suffering in the world. It is in response to an earlier thread on a different journal. Feel free to read if you want to; comments / questions welcomed.

Ultimately, I have had to confront some kinds of human suffering where my intellect failed me. Painful and slowly lethal birth defects are a ( Read more... )

So I've been visiting, via introductions from Robert's former student David, martial artists in the Taichung area ( Read more... )

Man, things are strange here on Earth-Beta ( Read more... )

In all my great expansive theologizing, I forgot the original inspiration for my post, which was simply this ( Read more... )