Posts by Rob

On Care and Feeding of White Whales

Jan25
2013 Rob Written by Rob

So for the last twenty years or so I’ve been reading a book. I started reading it somewhere around 1994, and have yet to finish it. It’s my white whale. One of them, anyway.

The book is Magister Ludi, by Hermann Hesse. It has barely a plot, is basically four hundred pages of prewar German existentialism, and I’ve never managed to get beyond about half of it. Every couple of years I take another swing at it, figuring that eventually I’ll either plow through and be free of it, or finally get the more sublime underlying message that scored it a Nobel in 1946. And every time I get about a hundred pages in and get distracted by some other book and back on the shelf it goes.

Been doing this now for almost half of my life, and now I’m doing it again.
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Posted in Faith, Making Good Art, Work

It’s A Smaller World

Nov12
2012 Rob Written by Rob

So last night Kristi and I were talking about how communication has changed so much in thirty years. This was after a successful video Skype call with Uncle Leo and Aunt Marty back in Kansas City, a thoroughly enjoyable experience that we plan to repeat soon.

If you’re old enough, think back to 1986. The early-to-mid-eighties were really a tipping point for technology in America. Computers in the home. The very first cellular phone tech started hitting the market. Music devices that produced flawless sound using lasers. There was this strong sense that the future wasn’t quite here yet, but would be strolling by at any moment.
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Posted in Everyday Life, Family and Friends

Rediscovering Roots

Oct24
2012 Rob Written by Rob

It’s the album I keep coming back to. Home and unpacked, gathering ourselves back into work routines and email flow, back in California after a long weekend visiting family in Missouri. My mind keeps turning to the album that we brought back with us, the photos of my parents and grandparents and great-grandparents, snapshots of lives going back almost a century.
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Posted in Family and Friends

47 Percent

Sep19
2012 Rob Written by Rob

Most of the time, honestly, my preference is to not get into politics here on R&K. That’s what Facebook is for. And my original intent, a couple days ago, was to write this post about the everyday stuff that’s been happening around here – new clients, weekend trips, maybe a bit about church politics, that sort of thing. Maybe a fanboy ramble about the recent release, after eight long years, of Black Mesa, the fan-built Half Life remake. (Which is absolutely amazing, by the way, so go download it.)

And then the Republican presidential candidate has a “McCain Suspending Campaign To Posture On Economics” moment, after a video surfaces of him deriding a full half of the U.S. population as unrepentant Democratic losers determined to bleed the Republican winners dry.

Wow. Just wow.
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