Monthly Archives: May 2003

This weekend’s homily at Mass focused on the qualities of Love re: the Great Commandment and how the English language is wholly inadequate to express the idea of Divine Love, a.k.a. the greek word Agape. Fr. Lee made a valiant … Continue reading →

Wanted: five or six creative people who live in the Greater Houston Area to play One Thousand Blank White Cards sometime in the next four to six weeks. Must be willing to have fun and not get irratated by games … Continue reading →

Prayer #7 (Ink, watercolor on paper) More colored boxes and lines. Starting to get tedious. I want to breeak out of my box mode. Even when I painted T-shirts I kept my wildy abstract paintings confined within boxes. I was … Continue reading →

Know what I want? Nothing(tm). I want Nothing(tm). Nothing(tm) refreshes and rejuvenates your spirit. It improves your attitude and sharpens your vision. Four out of five doctors recommend a daily dose of Nothing(tm) to relieve stress. Nothing(tm) is all natural, … Continue reading →

I am old and stodgy and getting stodgier by the hour. But I try to maintain at least a nodding acquaintance with what the kids are listening to these days because, as a parent of a pre-teen and a catechist … Continue reading →

Yes, another art rectangle… Prayer #2 (Ink, graphite, and watercolor on paper) I don’t know why I ended up liking this one. It kind of reminded me of Brice Marden meets Agnes Martin in the background. Ha. As if I … Continue reading →

My first impressions: How do they keep their sunglasses on while they fight?Future Church meetings look to be one *heck* of a lot more fun.The future Human music of choice? Techno, of course.In the future, white guys in dreadlocks are … Continue reading →

Most of my attempts to justify my love of comic books, er, graphic novels sound like desperate rationalizations: “No, they can be literate and very smart. Really.” So I am happy to have some help from the Chronicle of Higher … Continue reading →

This weekend we had a mini-retreat for our 6th and 7th graders. It was about recognizing that your true self-esteem comes from accepting and celebrating the way God made you. It’s actually hard to get these kids to talk about … Continue reading →

Okay, I’ll quit scanning and posting my little rectangles soon. I promise. You know how it is with a kid and his new toy, right? Prayer #11 (Ink, graphite, and watercolor on paper)

(As you can see, I got my image hosting capabilities sorted out. Bear with me while I figure out how to do this again. Hopefully my page is not too slow loading now.) The big problem I have with doing … Continue reading →

This morning on our walk we passed a woodpecker getting his peck on with the roof of a house in our neighborhood. It made his pecking sound like the rat-a-tat-tat of a snare drum rather than the hollow thonk-thonk-thonk of … Continue reading →

This is the painting that caused my watercolor cursing a few weeks back. Not what I was going for, but it turned out to be something I kind of like. Maybe the mind, when looking back on one’s mistakes, creates … Continue reading →

“Much that was called religion has carried an unconscious attitude ofhostility toward life. True religion must teach that life is filled withjoys pleasing to the eye of God, that knowledge without action is empty. Allmust see that the teaching of … Continue reading →

Easter Pictures are in. Petunia hunts eggs.