Written by When I was just out of college, I took a job at a small church in a small town just north of where I went to school. I was 22 and working 20 hours a week for about $600 a month. I was the only person working during the week and for the first time in my life, I was living alone. My house was a shabby time capsule stuck in 1974 that I was unable to fix up or even live in completely. But it was free and I could have a dog.
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Lacuna
Written by A week ago today, a good friend of ours died in a tragic scuba diving accident in Monterey. Her name was Melissa Quaresma. It’s been a rough week, and I’ve been trying to figure out what to write about it, and when.
On A Rail
In over twenty years of reading damned near any writing book I could get my hands on, a very few select quotes have stuck with me as belonging to the Major Arcana of communication. One of them, attributed to journalist James Reston of the New York Times, associates public relations with “the art of denying the truth without actually lying”. Working in marketing myself, I can attest to the veracity of that observation.
Our world has always been neck deep in denying the truth. Conservatively, I’d say 90-95% of allegedly objective “news” found on television today is public relations spin of some kind, and perhaps 75-80% of print media. So when something hits the airwaves that sounds a little too good to be true – such as the recently announced Amtrak “Residency” program – you have to know that it is.
And the more I think about it, the more I find to think about it.
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Grateful.
I read this article recently and I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t convicted by it. We said many times in 2012 that we were blessed to be successful during a recession. But when 2013 came around and we were knocked to the ground, were we still blessed? Did God decide to hate us now?