The inimitable Leemings are in Mexico for six weeks this summer. Ben is studying Classical Nahuatl, the language spoken by the Aztecs. Susi and the four kids are exploring, adventuring and helping to teach English at the local school. And Ben is blogging.
Click on Maggie to read about their adventures.
My friend Amaury is a Brazillian pop star. No kidding. Here he is singing and making funny faces.
Freshly Damian-free, one of my newest favorite singers, Lisa Hannigan, is also a very clever video-maker. Here are two, Lille and I Don’t Know. They won’t let me embed them, so you have to click the link, but do! It’s worth it.
And another fun one, thanks to Daniela. Sarah Blasko, No Turning Back
Multimedia art by Patrick Loughlin, “This is what I would look like in a Duran Duran video.”
What do preborn Muslim females wear?
Zygotic djalaba.
“It is true, of course, that what is an unspeakable gift of God for the lonely individual is easily disregarded and trodden under foot by those who have the gift every day. It is easily forgotten that the fellowship of Christian brethren is a gift of grace, a gift of the Kingdom of God that any day may be taken from us, that the time that still separates us from utter loneliness may be brief indeed. Therefore let him who until now has had the privilege of living a common Christian life with other Christians praise God’s grace from the bottom of his heart. Let him thank God on his knees and declare: It is grace, nothing but grace, that we are allowed to live in community with Christian brethren.
“The serious Christian, set down for the first time in a Christian community, is likely to bring with him a very definite idea of what Christian life together should be, and to try to realize it. But God’s grace speedily shatters such dreams. Just as surely as God desires to lead us to a knowledge of genuine Christian fellowship, so surely we must be overwhelmed by a great disillusionment with others, with Christians in general and, if we are fortunate, with ourselves. By sheer grace God will not permit us to live even for a moment in a dream world. He does not abandon us to those rapturous experiences and lofty moods that come over us like a dream. God is not a God of the emotions, but a God of truth. Only that fellowship which faces such disappointment with all its unhappy and ugly aspects, begins to grasp in faith the promise that is given to it. The sooner this shock of disillusionment comes to an individual and a community, the better for both… He who loves his dream of community more than the Christian community itself becomes a destroyer of the latter, even though his personal intentions may be ever so honest and earnest and sacrificial.”
~From Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together
Another fun haus dinner at 71 ending in random conversation and collective internet searching led to a discussion about long exposure in photographs and Picasso’s light drawing.
Brilliant, the drawing and the photography. The question is, how is Picasso not blurry from movement? Joel had almost the right answer; the full story can be found here.
Ten Thousand Places 