Month: August 2018
Back to Basics
A collection of folks at church has been going through a video series called ‘Basic’ after the post-worship fellowship time on Sunday mornings as the summer is winding down. The series features pastor and speaker Francis Chan, and interspersed with Chan speaking are snippets of a visual story that unfolds throughout the series. I’d had […]
Tried and true
I’m not sure what the official product life is of this guitar polish, but I bought it at the (long gone) downtown Lincoln location of Dietze Music probably 20 years ago, and it’s still going strong. (One can extrapolate from this that I haven’t cleaned my guitar nearly as often as I should have over […]
Devices, social media, and the dwindling of human experience
As most who have been following me on Facebook know, I made the decision to ditch my smartphone for a dumb phone, primarily because of unhealthy behaviors I was noticing in myself. I initially made this switch in the spring of 2017, moving to an old-school flip phone. Though I don’t do a ton of […]
Friday Chuckle
Stand-alone Thought of the Day
The Rest – ‘I Believe’
I picked up a CD by a band called ‘The Rest’, on a whim, in 1998 while at the Cornerstone music festival. The CD was clearly burned on a home computer, and the CD label and insert clearly printed on a home printer. There were no liner notes, but ‘The Rest’, I figured out later, […]
Intro
Hi. My name’s Kyle and, really, I’m nobody special. For a while now I’ve had a growing concern about the effects that social media was having on me, and my soul. The compulsion to check my feed constantly. The quest for “likes”. The ways in which it can so easily serve as a hair trigger […]