Autumnal-Halloween Edition

I do not know if the colors are just more lovely/intense this year or that my perception of them is heightened. I suspect it is the former. Thank you, Lord, who Hallows souls of women and men, to be free from decay and death.
Here are more beautifully dying leaves and some toadstools for Halloween.
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Help Still Desperately Needed for the Pakistan Earthquake Survivors

“This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers. If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him? Dear children, [...]

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Imagism and a Beautiful, Sad Reflection from Over the Rhine

In a Station of the Metro
The apparition of these faces in the crowd;
Petals on a wet, black bough.
-Ezra Pound
Pound said that this piece began as poem of over thirty lines. Half a year later he cut it in half. This was the final product. A distillation of the image experienced down to its very essence [...]

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Tracks in the Player-Two That Speak Straight to Me, One That Could Start Speaking Anytime the Good Lord Is Willing

I was a big fan of Eden Burning’s first CD, Vinegar and Brown Paper, with its jigs and reels and meaningful reflections on human frailty, God’s faithfulness, poverty, community. I then got Mirth and Matter, which did not seem to do too much for me. Last year I downloaded a best of CD for a [...]

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Autumnal

Below are the results of half an afternoon off, a camera, a minimal amount of digital tampering, and a coldish, overcast autumn day. The misfire that captured my cardoor will serve as the abstract portion of this exhibit. The last is a longing for the Advent season.
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“Lord, Give me a Sign”

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Your Help is Needed-Kashmir Quake More Devastating than Initially Thought

This story from the BBC details how the logistics getting aid to the quake zone is worse than last year’s Tsunami. 50,000+ people have died and that total is expected to rise. Moreover, the harsh himalayan winter is on the way.
Please help. Far fewer countries are sending aid to this disaster. In addition to [...]

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Helicopter Heroes

This story illustrates not only the dedication of Pakistani and other miltaries’ helicopter pilots, but also the continual challenges presented by the Pakistan Earthquake. Browse the links on the side of this article too, and, if you are compelled, please consider using the links at the top of this blog to donate.

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“…and just the tiniest bit burnt”

I am beginning to suspect that the greater part of my aesthetic framework is constructed from images and scenes in the Chronicles of Narnia, which were read to me when I was a wee lad away off in Pakistan. My brother Adrian says that because of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, he longed [...]

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Pakistan Earthquake-Please Help

This earthquake occurred in the land of my birth and half my blood, less than a hundred miles from cousins in Rawalpindi and my school in Murree. I am thankful that neither any of my relatives nor anyone at the school was injured. However, many, many have died and are homeless.
An earthquake anywhere is hard [...]

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